Quotes by Architecture Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors. I. M. Pei neighborsarchitectureviolencespace I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. I. M. Pei thinkmearchitecturemother I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect. I. M. Pei neverleftfamilyarchitecture The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in. D. B. Weiss visionarchitecturemusiclife We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty. Christian de Portzamparc willbetterarchitecturebeauty Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. Christian de Portzamparc moviesarchitecturestrongtime When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist's life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city. Christian de Portzamparc architecturechangetimelife In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen. Christian de Portzamparc cityunderstandvisionarchitecture The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It's a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There's nowhere else like it. Claire Tomalin youarchitectureloveculture 'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. Claes Oldenburg competecityfirstarchitecture Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems. Walter Gropius goodarchitecturelifeknowledge Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. Walter Gropius paintingfuturearchitecturetogether The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture. Walter Gropius paintingarchitecturetogetherart I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught. Walter Gropius i-ammyselfarchitecturetime You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans. Walter Russell Mead lookyoucararchitecture I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn't expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, 'He'll pull through.' When he didn't, I didn't understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II bestarchitecturemindfather«2526272829303132333435
