Famous Quotes: Architecture

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
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I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.
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You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
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But I absolutely believe that 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.
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I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
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We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
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I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
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Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
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I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
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Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
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Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
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Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
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Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
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Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
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Light, God
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