1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

When you have all these traces of trash moving around, you can ask yourself how can we make the system more efficient. Then we can make better decisions. And perhaps we will not throw away the plastic bottles that go every day to the dump. Carlo Ratti

Day You Yourself Every Day Better Will Every System More Throw Bottles Perhaps Traces Make Around How Go Dump Efficient Decisions Moving Ask Then Plastic Trash Away

As people talk, text and browse, telecommunication networks are capturing urban flows in real time and crystallizing them as Google's traffic congestion maps. Carlo Ratti

Time People Google Browse Networks Talk Real Traffic Text Real Time Urban Them Congestion Capturing Maps Flows

We have this condition where digital technology is becoming increasingly smaller and distributed in the environment. In a certain sense, this is the first time ever we can describe a city in real time. Carlo Ratti

The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all massed together. Cesar Pelli

Me Together World Several Scale Out Only Also Occupied Trade Were Blocks Vertically Center Plan World Trade World Trade Center

I'm a bad customer for my own buildings! If I'm choosing an apartment, I choose one about five or six stories high so that I can see the people, the trees, and the world on the street. Beyond that, I lose contact with the ground! Cesar Pelli

I needed to understand the spirit of a tall building, what makes it important, what should I try to achieve in a tall building. It became a very interesting problem, something that I like very much. Cesar Pelli

Problem Try Achieve Important Building Spirit Something Like Became Tall Makes Understand Very Interesting Much Should Needed

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world. Cesar Pelli

Nature World Try Style Believe Every Respond City Architects Imposing Traditions Expectations Closely Should Plans Each

My exposure to visual art all my life was intensive. Charles Gwathmey

Life Art My Life All My Life Visual Intensive Exposure

You have to be able to wake up in the morning and say, 'I've been true.' Charles Gwathmey

Morning You Wake Up Say Able True Been Wake Up

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity. Charles Jencks

You Science Architecture Tree Slight Complexity Exactly Similar Variation Previous Computer Cheaply Leaf New Look How Methods Repetition Branch Quickly Efficiently Get Any Just Produced Production Showing Using

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting. Charles Jencks

You Culture Natural Faster Changes Scale Evolution Evolving See Cosmic About Darwin Fact Horses Through Selection He Exciting Know Look Pigeon Talking Said Go Very Jumps Goes Gradually Getting In Fact Bigger Natural Selection Things Phase

Can't you see, we are in a dialogue with the universe? Charles Jencks

You Universe See Dialogue

It's a mark of any icon that it should be open to iconoclasm. Charles Jencks

Mark Open Any Icon Should

A sign to me is a one-liner, a symbol is very complex and my house is a series of symbols. Charles Jencks

Me Complex Sign House Very Series Symbol Symbols

The singular point of beautiful objects, and people, is that they are experienced not as parts, or ratios between cheekbones and chin, but as wholes. The experience of beauty is a perception, but it is one that mixes up various other sensations and makes them converge in a particular way. Charles Jencks

Beautiful Experience People Perception Beauty Other Way Objects Various Point Between Particular Cheekbones Particular Way Parts Makes Singular Up Sensations Experienced Converge Chin Them

I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. Charles Jencks

Art Architecture Car Become Down Parity Park Fact Perfect Inspired Parks Between Most Piece Pieces Wrote Because Been Site Just Artists In Fact Should Working Sculpture Things

Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that. Charles Jencks

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. Christian de Portzamparc

Architecture Better Will Beauty Gesture Sense Living Every Must Would Above Give More Various Various Reasons Shape Rediscover Essence Justified Meaning Meaning Of Use Reason Reasons Reinforce Here Need

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