Quotes about Architecture

“Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.”

“The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.”

“God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.”

“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”

“The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.”

“In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.”

“Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.”

“There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.”

“I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn't out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I'd left university.”

“I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.”

“I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.”

“We don't believe we've solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we've built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.”

“I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.”

“Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.”

“I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.”

“Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the 'application layer' of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart from occasional Federal Trade Commission activity.”

“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”

“I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession.”

“Barcelona is a beautiful city. I love the buildings and the architecture and always enjoy being close to that. It makes sense as an art person to work in places like that, it always feels nice and creative.”

“People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.”

“It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.”