1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture. Minoru Yamasaki

Change Painting Think Furniture See Idea Like Piece Because Wall Hang Just Anymore Then Should Why

I can't do everything obviously although sometimes I know that all of us wish that we could. Minoru Yamasaki

Sometimes Wish Everything Could Know Obviously Although Us

Homer Simpson is one of my favorite people, though he's not real. He represents the American who's filled with this 'affluenza.' He's constantly exposed to consumption and a sense of bigness, which is a part of being an American. Mitchell Joachim

People Sense Though Favorite Favorite People Constantly He Part Consumption Simpson Real American Represents Being Which Exposed Filled Homer

I like to use the analogy of going to the gym. If you go to the gym and your goal is, 'I want to look just like David Beckham,' then that drives you to do certain things. You may never look like Beckham, but it is a goal. Cities need the same thing. They need a vision and a plan for their ideal physique. Mitchell Joachim

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Actually it's great to be an American. I love my country. Mitchell Joachim

Love Great Country American Actually

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. Moshe Safdie

Fashion Architecture World Joined Passing Timeless

I try firstly to make buildings humane. Moshe Safdie

Try Humane Make Buildings Firstly

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. Moshe Safdie

Architecture Faster Other Changing Some Than Professions

Countries and places have a history, a story, and a culture. Moshe Safdie

History Culture Countries Story Places

A house is not a machine! It's something else for living - but not a machine. Moshe Safdie

Living Else Machine Something Something Else House

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. Moshe Safdie

Architecture Other Arts Different Which Ethic Profound

What I want to do is try to raise the level of SCI-Arc's original mission, which was to be forward-thinking. And let's face it, if you're forward-thinking and you're dealing in concepts of new ideas, history has told us that new ideas are not always wanted by everyone. Neil Denari

History You Try Face Everyone New Mission Ideas Concepts Dealing Always New Ideas Want Wanted Which Us Original Level Raise

There is a very beautiful expression in the Hebrew language that's borrowed from spoken Torah... 'All is predicted, and permission is given at any point to change anything.' I think I live by this idiom in the sense that there is always a goal; there is always something to look forward to in life and my creative search, and that goal is there. Neri Oxman

Life Beautiful Change Creative Language Sense Live Think Torah Borrowed Something Given Point Spoken Look Idiom Always Permission Goal Very Any Anything Predicted Hebrew Forward Search Expression

We need to treat the planet as a system, and up until now, we've operated more as if the world were made of separate parts - this part is environment, this part is economy. But everything is connected. You can't fix global warming with a Ph.D. in thermodynamics! Neri Oxman

You World Treat Made Everything System More Part Environment Economy Global Until Global Warming Operated Parts Were Up Fix Warming Planet Separate Connected Thermodynamics Now Need

The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be designed with this variation of properties and relationship with the environment that can take part in the natural ecology. Neri Oxman

Future Relationship Natural Car Design Variation Properties Ecology Take Part Environment Buildings Material Where Anything Whether Designed

In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are inspired by nature to designs made with and by nature to, possibly, designing nature herself. Neri Oxman

Nature Will Made Design Biology Herself Synthetic Possibly Architectural Inspired Clear Enable End In The End Transition Product Designing Designs

I believe in the balance between dreaming and building. Neri Oxman

Balance Building Believe Dreaming Between

The world of design has been subjugated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Neri Oxman

World Design Has-Been Mass Mass Production Been Production Manufacturing

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels. Neri Oxman

Dreams Memories Hide Fears Pain Relationships Our Our Dreams Cities Collection Embraced Kindred Identities Souls Built Reduced Cherished Labels Hold Cannot Aside Bodies Products

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