Quotes by Architecture In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. Edwin Lutyens gamethoughthardarchitecture Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself. Abigail Johnson architecturetechnologychangeway Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral. Edith Pearlman postbuildingarchitecturesometimes I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't. S. J. Rozan stand-upstandarchitecturework I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture. Edgardo Osorio newarchitecturenew-yorkdream Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. Ma Yansong feelyouexperiencearchitecture The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response. Ma Yansong architectureworktimebeauty When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead. Ma Yansong mearchitecturescienceschool In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. Ma Yansong architecturecommunitytogethertoday I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It's basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature. Hans-Ulrich Obrist architecturesciencebreakfastart I am a failed architect, if I'm honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I've got really bad spatial awareness. Hannah Ware i-amarchitecturehistoryart The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. Ian Hamilton Finlay youtrustarchitecturebook I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant. Dacre Montgomery restaurantarchitecturefoodlove The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. Iain McGilchrist possibleinventionlatearchitecture The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary. I. M. Pei architecturetechnologyspacelight In northern architecture - the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches - the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert. I. M. Pei youarchitecturenaturelight I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. I. M. Pei mearchitecturelifeamerica Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process. I. M. Pei partmodernarchitectureprocess To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function. I. M. Pei meyouarchitecturelife It is good to learn from the ancients. I'm a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape. I. M. Pei goodmyselfarchitecturetime«2526272829303132333435»
