Quotes of: Frank-sinatra Keyword

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

David Chipperfield

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

Harry Seidler

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

Peter Eisenman

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Rem Koolhaas

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

Richard Rogers

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

Tadao Ando

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

Toyo Ito

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

Thom Mayne

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

Zaha Hadid

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Arthur Erickson

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I?

Philip Johnson

The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art.

Thom Mayne

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

The Architecture of Community

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

Real Frank Zappa Book

...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.

Re: CP

The guy who sits in front of the TV set with headphones on has lost the capacity to react to the tactile environment.

Peter Eisenman