Quotes by Architecture Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment - whether it's a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into 'A Beautiful Mind' or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates - has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new. Brian Grazer mearchitecturebeautifulpeople Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture. Bruce Jackson mostinvisiblearchitecturebridges I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun. Bryan Batt greatstylefamilyarchitecture The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed. Bernard Tschumi actpleasurearchitecturelimits My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society. Frei Otto architecturesocietylighthope My architecture is the architecture of survival. Frei Otto architecturesurvival Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. Frei Otto manfuturearchitecturenature I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. Francois Nars architecturefashionsometimeslove I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes. Narciso Rodriguez buildingsalwaysarchitectureart My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice. Elizabeth Diller architecturespacepracticework Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology. Elizabeth Diller architecturepoliticstechnology We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body. Elizabeth Diller alwaysbuildingarchitecturebody Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses. Elizabeth Diller nothingarchitecturespacerain In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. Elizabeth Diller feelingarchitectureartschool Architecture, by definition, is always standing still. Elizabeth Diller stillalwaysstandingarchitecture Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. Elizabeth Diller i-amwomengratefularchitecture We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. Elizabeth Diller doingarchitecturespecialwork With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text - when I'm doing it right - acts as the perfect 'blueprint', and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music. Eric Whitacre jobarchitecturemusicsoul There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect. Eric Dane moremearchitecturenumbers There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. Edwin Lutyens willnevergreatarchitecture«2526272829303132333435»
