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Architecture Quotes

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness Picture Quote #1

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it’s completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties Picture Quote #1

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it Picture Quote #1

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms. It’s about space and material Picture Quote #1

I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren’t for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture Picture Quote #1

Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter Picture Quote #1

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No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either Picture Quote #1

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry’s very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress Picture Quote #1

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that Picture Quote #1

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church Picture Quote #1

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it’s just total! It’s a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That’s what science fiction is about Picture Quote #1

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects Picture Quote #1

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When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations Picture Quote #1

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that’s important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail Picture Quote #1

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role Picture Quote #1

If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don’t have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform Picture Quote #1

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism Picture Quote #1

Don’t look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build? Picture Quote #1

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A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you’ll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you’ll write screeds against philistine mass culture Picture Quote #1

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning Picture Quote #1

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect’s task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting Picture Quote #1

I think about architecture all the time. That’s the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes Picture Quote #1

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best Picture Quote #1

Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn’t really come from the fiction world - he comes from advertising and architecture - he’s extremely easy-going and very calm. He’s extremely detailed, but a very generous and fun director to work with. He really encouraged me to find the fun in the part and to have fun with it Picture Quote #1

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The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture Picture Quote #1

I didn’t even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn’t out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I’d left university Picture Quote #1

Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses Picture Quote #1

Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment Picture Quote #1

I’d so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness (Architecture Quotes) The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it’s completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties. (Architecture Quotes) White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was ... we taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it. (Architecture Quotes) I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms. It’s about space and material. (Architecture Quotes) I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren’t for real, not for actual building. It was more a critique of architecture. (Architecture Quotes) Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter. (Architecture Quotes) No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either. (Architecture Quotes) Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry’s very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress. (Architecture Quotes) Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that. (Architecture Quotes) Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. (Architecture Quotes) As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it’s just total! It’s a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That’s what science fiction is about. (Architecture Quotes) I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects (Architecture Quotes) When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations. (Architecture Quotes) Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that’s important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail. (Architecture Quotes) I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role. (Architecture Quotes) If I were to arrive at a foreign country like Czech Republic, I don’t have to speak Czech to understand the feeling of the local sensations through architecture. That is a kind of communication that no language can perform. (Architecture Quotes) Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces of privatization, financialization, militarization and criminalization, fashioning a new architecture of punishment, massive human suffering and authoritarianism. (Architecture Quotes) Don’t look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build? (Architecture Quotes) A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you’ll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you’ll write screeds against philistine mass culture. (Architecture Quotes) I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. (Architecture Quotes) If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect’s task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. (Architecture Quotes) I think about architecture all the time. That’s the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes. (Architecture Quotes) You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best. (Architecture Quotes) Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn’t really come from the fiction world - he comes from advertising and architecture - he’s extremely easy-going and very calm. He’s extremely detailed, but a very generous and fun director to work with. He really encouraged me to find the fun in the part and to have fun with it. (Architecture Quotes) The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now every opportunity to found the natural democratic state in these United States of America by way of natural economic order and a natural, or organic, architecture. (Architecture Quotes) I didn’t even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn’t out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I’d left university. (Architecture Quotes) Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing eye, appropriate reflexes which embrace sensitive observations coupled with appropriate emotional responses. (Architecture Quotes) Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment (Architecture Quotes) I’d so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind, the craft, and exploring things. (Architecture Quotes) 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. (Architecture Quotes)

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