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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.
The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it's something to truly spend some time getting to know all the cool places.
Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.
It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
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.
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.
Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.
I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built in 1965, and I like gardening.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it.
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's any good.
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy.
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public wanted was the future.
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.