Quotes with architecture

  • Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
  • I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
  • Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
  • Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
  • What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
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  • Walter Gropius A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.
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  • Coco Chanel Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Joyce Carey A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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  • Joyce Cary A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
    Joyce Cary
    Irish novelist (1888 - 1957)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arne Jacobsen And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Adolf Loos Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Arthur Erickson Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Constantin Brancusi Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
    Constantin Brancusi
     
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  • Felix E. Schelling Architecture is petrified music.
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  • Bjarke Ingels Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
    Bjarke Ingels
    Danish architect and businessman (1974 - )
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  • Philip Johnson Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
    Philip Johnson
     
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  • Lady Morgan Architecture is the printing press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected.
    Lady Morgan
    Irish writer (born: Sydney Owenson) (1781 - 1859)
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  • Arne Jacobsen Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
    Arne Jacobsen
    Danish architect and designer (1902 - 1971)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ben Nicholson At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Anthony Holden Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bob Barr Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Arthur Erickson Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Adolf Loos Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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