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One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings. Martin Filler
People Architecture Goals Live Stated Postmodern Greater Buildings Movement Newly Sensitivity Use Who Designed
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site. Martin Filler
Dreams Architecture Made Building Elusive Has-Been Structures Most Industrially Been Persistent Site Modern Movement
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control. Martin Filler
Quality Architecture Control Typical Finer Cost Architect Structural Exceeded Uncommon Schemes Demand Institutions Budgets Particularly Execution Within Buildings Cultural Conditions Commercial Than Norms Depart Them Reasons Many Technological Designs
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. Martin Filler
Technology Man Architecture Made Building Before Our Dilemma Possible Architects Similarly More New Calculations Concentrating Tall New Forms End Than Modern Doomed Whether Place Forms Public Low Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Ever
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. Martin Mull
Music Architecture Writing Dancing About Like
As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices. Mary Lou Jepsen
Me Phones Architecture Cell Phones Other Invented Mass New Devices Mass Production Executives Ready Go Cell Getting Screen Wanting Production Laptop Laptops Many
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them. Maya Lin
Art Science Architecture Analytically Approach Rather Both Pursue Merging Left Very Than Fields Them Then Separate Choose Things
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. Maya Lin
Architecture Programming Approaches Systems Logic Perfect Computer Combination Math Just Loved Figured
Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for. Michael Graves
Architecture Machine Instead Know Metaphor Did Human Want Human Body Public Them Body Use Using Designing
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. Michael Graves
Architecture Between Pragmatic Equity Any Function Symbolic
For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself. Michael Graves
Myself Architecture School Made First Live Furniture Married Had Bought Stuff Buildings Making Very Different Which Interested Apartment Really Designing
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus. Michael Graves
Architecture School Princeton Building Worst Years Campus Taught
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words. Michael Graves
You Architecture Words Reading Other Enough Draw About Never Read In Other Words
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century. Michael Graves
Book Architecture Century Oldest Treatise
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design. Michael Hansmeyer
Reality Architecture Vision Building Design Paper Drawing Architect Having Constructing Computer How Traditional Lot Influence Either Then Really Notion Works
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports. Michael Mandelbaum
Music Sports Creativity Architecture Sometimes Embodied Football Said Concrete May Then Team Team Sports Set Basketball
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. Michael Tilson Thomas
Music Time Architecture Whatever Address Those Musics Kind Must Classical Classical Music Knows Does Mean Us Each Each One Larger
If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough. Moby
You Yourself Architecture Looking Enough Disservice Unrelenting Generic Doing Huge Just Place Then Dismiss Hard Inclined
Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless. Moshe Safdie
Fashion Architecture World Joined Passing Timeless
Architecture is changing faster than some other professions. Moshe Safdie
Architecture Faster Other Changing Some Than Professions
There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts. Moshe Safdie
Architecture Other Arts Different Which Ethic Profound
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. Nancy Banks Smith
You Experience Architecture Left Leg Modern Door Your Keep Extending Shut
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. Nate Berkus
You Architecture Money Amazing Spend Stuff Lot Need
Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse. Nate Lowman
Fashion Architecture Everything Rapidly Developing Most Because Around Discourse Form Centered Body Actually
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it. Nathaniel Kahn
Me Architecture Father Way Harsh Respond Kind Seemed Industrial Child Chilly
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before. Neil Denari
Architecture Cinema Seen Before Television More Than Places Interesting Might Ever
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