Architecture Quote by Toyo Ito Download Open image “We have to base architecture on the environment.” — Toyo Ito ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Environment Nature
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material - more of an environment, not a product. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take orders. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems we must… — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
I sometimes feel that we are losing an intuitive sense of our own bodies. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front of computer games. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that… — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
