Quotes of: Architectural Keyword

We depend on computers when we ourselves haven't mastered the principles behind what we are asking computers to design. Glenn Murcutt - A Singular Architectural Practice page 16

Glenn Murcutt: A Singular Architectural Practice: 2002 Laureate Of The Pritzker Architecture Prize

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

The Architecture of Community

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

Jaime Lerner

Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.

Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

Quincy Jones

Cubism is a part of the daily life in Spain, it is in Spanish architecture. The architecture of other countries aleays follows the line of the landscape . . . but Spanish architecture always cuts the lines of the landscape.

Picasso

The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be...

The Architecture of Happiness

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defin...

Rem Koolhaas

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Parker Stevenson

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

Peter Zumthor

what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happ...

The Architecture of Happiness

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

Moshe Safdie

Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.

Architecture, Ethics and Globalization

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a l...

The Architecture of Happiness

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same tendencies which in other domains will lead us to marry the wrong people, choose inappropriate jobs and book unsucce...

The Architecture of Happiness

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Stephen Gardiner

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

Alvar Aalto

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

Frank Stella

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Frank Lloyd Wright

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses