Picture Quotes I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin. —Oscar NiemeyerWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. —John RuskinWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal. —Leon KrierWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Architecture is about public space held by buildings. —Richard RogersWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. —Graham GreeneWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. —Greg LynnWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. —Maya LinWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics. —Honoré de BalzacWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour. —Thom MayneWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. —Toyo ItoWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that expressthemselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. Music, acting, poetry proceed in the one mighty stream; sculpture, painting, all the arts of design, in the other. There is no primary art outside these two arts, for their origin is far earlier than man himself; and dancing came first. —Havelock EllisWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes I like the architecture of lingerie. —Colleen AtwoodWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture. —François-René de ChateaubriandWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. —Joseph AltuzarraWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations. —Aga Khan IVWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. —Henry Ward BeecherWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this
Picture Quotes Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. —Samuel ButlerWhatsappFacebookTwitterGoogle PlusPinterestLinkedInBufferEmail this