422 Architecture Quotes for You to Enjoy

I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. I. M. Pei

Family Architecture Sense Architect Never Been Years Western Left Any China Chinese

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. Ian Hamilton Finlay

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up. Imogen Poots

Architecture White Find Unattractive London Segregation Angular Aristocratic New Parts Real Mixed Up York New York Different Grand Really Even

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that. Issey Miyake

Architecture Intimate Has-Been Beyond Go Been Clothing Want

I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning. Jack Dangermond

Technology Architecture Important Practice Think Harvard Has-Been Computer He Over Most Been Years Taught The Most Important Influencing Landscape Planning Theory Figures Agreed Application Widely

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. Jaime Lerner

Architecture Tree City More Beautifully Than Little Designed

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. Jake Barton

People Architecture Everything Television Participation Which Moving Modes Apply Museums

The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. James P. Gorman

Time Architecture Sense Complex Rules Thousands Observed Dodd-Frank Makes Effort Same Same Time Legislators Produced Act Pages Basic Number

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. James Polshek

Art Angry People Architecture Political First Building Sense Believe Every Think Considered Say Instance Ideas Makes Art Form Very Whenever Form Really Should Reasons Profession

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. James Polshek

Good Me Age Architecture Think Everything System Kind Besides Good Thing Had Most Makes Productive Thing Early Early Age

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. James Stewart

Architecture Degree College Princeton Back Architect Had Scholarship Masters Because Go Get Done Going Graduated Graduation Them Fun

In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. James Watkins

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids' forts and temporary architecture of all sorts. Janet Echelman

Architecture Building Own Clothes Kids Temporary My Own Structures Inspired Sort Sheets Always Bed Continue Up Child Including Enjoyed

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science. Jay Griffiths

Respect Science Architecture Society Those Relevant Exception Idea Academia Qualifications Knows Greater Accepts Understands Climate Different Expertise Fields Media

Each new situation requires a new architecture. Jean Nouvel

Architecture Situation New Requires Each

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. Jean Nouvel

Game Architecture Favorite Like Play

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. Jim Woodring

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge. Jo Nesbo

Architecture Water Edge Changed Visit Admire Boring See Cosmopolitan Rather More New Town Until House Opera Opera House Tall Go Lot Ships Modern Eighties Much Harbour Now Downtown Oslo Museum

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones. Joe Elliott

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. John Rocha

Fashion Architecture Glass Very Interested

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