Quotes by Architecture For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world. Zaha Hadid architecturemenworld With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not. Zaha Hadid piecesarchitectureform Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough. Zaha Hadid difficulttougharchitecture The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. Zaha Hadid architecturewayart I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing. Zaha Hadid agendasarchitecturethinking It's not my duty as an architect to look at it. Zaha Hadid architectarchitecturelooks I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world. Tadao Ando architecturebelievehistorypeople The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can't change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force. Toomas Hendrik Ilves youarchitecturechangepeople We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements. Tony Scott thinkarchitecturebusinessprocess Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it's mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes. Hubert de Givenchy greatyouintelligencearchitecture I haven't really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture. Hubert de Givenchy gotgreenarchitecturelove To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge. Thomas Heatherwick challengevaluearchitecturereal Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of culture. Thomas Heatherwick architecturecarecultureworld I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK. Thom Mayne challengegoodyouarchitecture I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. Thom Mayne unfinishedrougharchitecturereal Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way. Thom Mayne resultarchitectureprocessway 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. Thom Mayne architecturecommunicationchange Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. Herbert A. Simon shortpaintingarchitecturebusiness Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native. Theodor Mommsen nothingplasticarchitectureart The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. Rem Koolhaas newarchitecturewaythinking«2021222324252627282930»
