Quotes by Architecture My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside. Richard Rogers lookyouarchitecturelight Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years. Renzo Piano jobyouarchitecturepeople In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. Renzo Piano liveyouarchitectureyears I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my family. Renzo Piano buildingfamilyarchitecturefather My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture. Taylor Schilling bridgedesignarchitecturehome Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song. Sammy Cahn titleeveryarchitecturesong I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. James Polshek angryarchitecturepeopleart I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. James Polshek goodmearchitectureage For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. James Rouse mearchitectureimprovementpurpose In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul. James Watkins downgoyouarchitecture Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management... I was horrible at all that. Jeff Perry cameraarchitecturemanagementtime To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art. John Lautner deadmearchitectureart Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know. John Lautner youarchitecturetimelife I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. Justin Peck citynewarchitecturelove Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process. Joshua Prince-Ramus definitionveryarchitectureprocess Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. Joshua Prince-Ramus sketchgreatarchitectureway Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time. Joshua Prince-Ramus greatarchitecturetimepeople Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes. Joshua Prince-Ramus lookyoufakearchitecture Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal - the vision, the structure, the architecture. Joshua Bell goodknowvisionarchitecture I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York. Joseph Kosinski thoughtarchitecturewayschool«2223242526272829303132»
