Quotes by Architecture A painting that is well composed is half finished. Pierre Bonnard architecture half art By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created. Piet Mondrian sculpture architecture reality You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that. Prince Charles offensive architecture giving If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. Quincy Jones liquid frozen architecture 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. Rafael Moneo chains architecture able Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline. Raimund Abraham profession discipline architecture Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance. Rem Koolhaas bad-ass badass architecture Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Rem Koolhaas significant-things luxury architecture People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. Rem Koolhaas architecture people thinking Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. Rem Koolhaas infrastructure architecture important Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. Rem Koolhaas drivers ghetto architecture There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. Rem Koolhaas dutch architecture The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me. Rem Koolhaas architecture lying thinking Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important. Rem Koolhaas architecture important thinking I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture Rem Koolhaas contemporary architecture wanted One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. Renzo Piano bad-ass badass architecture Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things. Renzo Piano feds architecture art You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony Renzo Piano harmony architecture criticism The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. Richard Meier architecture responsibility order We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve. Richard Meier architecture long past «1415161718192021222324»
