38 Architectural Quotes for You to Enjoy

The centuries-old history and culture of India, majestic architectural monuments and museums of Delhi, Agra and Mumbai have a unique attractive force. Vladimir Putin

History Culture Monuments India Architectural Delhi Majestic Attractive Force Unique Mumbai Museums

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. I. M. Pei

Technology Architecture Key Light Space Important Design Secondary Architectural More Materials Than Essence Essential Form Anything Element

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique temples, Roman basilicas, and even the cathedrals of the Middle Ages are not the works of single personalities but creations of entire epochs. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Achievement Single Circumstance Significance Temples Entire Seem Architectural Structures Cathedrals Makes Times Antique Roman Middle Middle Ages Personalities Us Ages Creations Full Works Even Earlier

Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. Peter Zumthor

Time Great Gardening Garden Simple Walls Long Seen Long Time Believe Every Think Setting Every Time Intimacy Stay See Magical Architectural Columns Buildings Sheltered Surrounded Where Want Place Places Turns Gardens Imagine

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials. Tadao Ando

Man Experience Architecture Building Architectural Through Since Come Concepts Although Am Materials Been Methods Western Japanese Based Actual Designs

Back when I was a professional model-maker at Industrial Light & Magic, my specialty was hard-edged construction - spaceships, miniature sets, and architectural stuff. These objects were sometimes just 12 inches across yet needed enough detail to fill a movie screen. Adam Savage

Construction Sometimes Light Sets Enough Back Miniature Detail Magic Architectural Objects Stuff Industrial Were Just Screen Movie Across Inches Professional Fill Specialty Needed

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture. Ai Weiwei

Architecture Competition National Beginning Design Relationships Our Collaborate Project City See Stayed Architectural Proposal Between Invitation Accepted Am End Won Committed Stadium Beijing Fostering

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. Arthur Erickson

Profit Architectural Bottom Bottom Line Contemporary Line Source Very Mantra Expression

It's unfortunate that a certain type of stripped-down classicism became the in-house architectural language for 20th-century fascism. Can an architectural language recover from such an association? Yes, I think it can, because in the end what you're talking about is a column and beam. David Chipperfield

You Language Think Type About Architectural Beam Recover Column Talking Became Because End Yes In The End Unfortunate Certain Fascism Association

My office has two buildings that function like the right and left sides of the brain. There's a room where everything is being edited for an upcoming project, but you can pull out of that into a tranquil space to work in a different, more solitary medium. It's an architectural unfolding of the process instead of just one chaotic structure. Doug Aitken

Work You Space Medium Sides Chaotic Everything Project Solitary Out Architectural Structure More Instead Like Edited Buildings Brain Left Office Tranquil Just Being Where Different Unfolding Just One Process Room Function Right Two Pull

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect. Emilio Ambasz

School First Project Neighbors Kind Must About Architect Architectural School Teachers Like Know House Couple Always Been Up Very Did Ended Being Wanted Anything Them Fifteen Across Teachers Street Designed

Turnberry is truly one of the most spectacular properties on earth. The views, the setting, and grandeur of the hotel - there's just nothing else like it. We've respected the architectural history of the hotel first and foremost, but most of all, we've respected the tradition of golf at Turnberry. Eric Trump

My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity. Frei Otto

Time Me Natural Humanity People Will Drive Whatever Natural Disasters Design Types Following Architectural New Disasters Buildings Doing Been Left Which Poor Poor People Use Help Keep

I go to the studio every day, but I don't paint every day. I love playing with my architectural models. I love making plans. I could spend my life arranging things. Gerhard Richter

Life Love Day Every Day My Life Every Spend Architectural Could Studio Making Arranging Go Models Plans Paint Things Playing

I'm not an architectural composer. Harrison Birtwistle

Composer Architectural

The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast. Isabella Bird

Fruit Beauty Tree Broad High Worthy Superb About Architectural Exceeding Delicate Take Throwing Foot Feet Sharply Leaves Shining Contrast Green Form Place Cut Deep Pale Ornament

I wanted to work in the arts. My dream come true would be to be an architectural historian and work with the royal palaces and all the fabulous art collections. But I'm not committed enough. Jaye Davidson

Work Art Enough Collections Dream Would Would-Be Fabulous Architectural True Come Historian Committed Arts Wanted Palaces Royal

New York being what it is, our museums are vertical, not horizontal. That means the stumbling blocks to architectural clarity are unavoidable - but certainly surmountable. Jerry Saltz

Our Clarity Unavoidable Horizontal Architectural New Stumbling Blocks Vertical York New York Being Means Certainly Museums

Perfection would be something that you see in 'Architectural Digest.' Jill Soloway

You Digest Would Would-Be See Architectural Something Perfection

They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18. Justine Bateman

Mom Me You Wait Out Brother Architectural Making Bedroom Get Just Place Pack Plans Helped Dad Found

Although prefabrication has a long history - the ancient Romans shipped pre-cut stone columns, pediments, and other architectural elements to their colonies in North Africa, where the numbered parts were reassembled into temples - the idea took on a new impetus with the technological advances of the Industrial Revolution. Martin Filler

History Long Revolution Other Took Ancient Temples Architectural Colonies Long History Impetus Advances Columns Idea New Industrial Industrial Revolution Although Parts Were Shipped North North Africa Stone Africa Where Romans Elements Technological Numbered

Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long Island roadside poultry stand resembling a duck, which Venturi and Scott Brown made a cult object through their writings. Martin Filler

Made Long Big Object Brown Architectural Long Island Kitsch Poultry Through Writings Roadside New Most Island Duck Cult Vernacular Scott Commercial York Common New York Which Pop Stand Resembling

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers's Centre Georges Pompidou of 1971-1977 - the true prototype of the modern museum as popular architectural spectacle - wound up costing so much more than planned that the French government solved the shortfall by cutting support for several regional museums. Martin Filler

Government Several Wound Solved Architectural Costing More Piano Support True French Prototype Up Rogers Than Modern Regional Centre Richard Cutting Much Planned Popular Spectacle Museum Museums

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