Quotes of: Architectural Keyword

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

Oksana Baiul

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Oscar Niemeyer

There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.

Philip Treacy

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

Peter Zumthor

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Roman Coppola

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

Richard Meier

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

Renzo Piano

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

Renzo Piano

Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

Steven Holl

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

Sydney Pollack

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

Zaha Hadid

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

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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

Although there are countless tangents that a career in the building arts can take, it is nonetheless most unusual for a major architectural practice to emerge once a firm's principals are well into what is loosely called middle age.

Martin Filler

I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

Alexandre de Betak

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Arthur Erickson

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Arne Jacobsen

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

Anika Noni Rose

Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

Annabelle Selldorf

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Andrew Lloyd Webber