164 quotes found
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
“Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.”
“If you look at the Earth without architecture, it's sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it's a movie theate...”
“Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.”
“When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.”
“I am involved in the architecture of space.”
“Architecture is about public space held by buildings.”
“In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architec...”
“For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.”
“Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.”
“I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'...”
“A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.”
“The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.”
“If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just...”
“The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.”
“I call architecture frozen music.”
“If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.”
“I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.”
“I see music as fluid architecture.”
“Thats Manhattan todayall the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick now, a sleight-of-hand to draw your eye from the truth, as ill...”
