Citas sobre Architecture

“The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.”

“The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.”

“The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.”

“We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.”

“There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.”

“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.”

“Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.”

“I don't believe in morality in architecture.”

“For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.”

“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.”

“I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.”

“When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.”

“I see music as fluid architecture.”

“If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.”

“I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.”

“Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.”

“When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.”

“The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.”

“To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.”

“We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.”

“I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.”