Quotes by Architecture I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. Daryl Hall antiques architecture house I'm totally into architecture for all strata of society. High design should not just be for rich people. David Adjaye design architecture people For me, architecture is a social act. David Adjaye architecture social Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring into your civilian work. Same with film, architecture, music, sports. That's one tributary of the autobiography. David Biespiel architecture sports character Architecture theory is very interesting. David Byrne architecture theory interesting The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. David Chipperfield good-and-bad architecture differences A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels. David Chipperfield ridiculous architecture levels I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age. David Chipperfield architecture age trying Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted. David Chipperfield architecture want pay Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce. David Chipperfield balls architecture interesting Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. David Chipperfield britain lasting architecture Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts. Dean Koontz architecture ghost house In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. Delia Ephron los-angeles loser architecture Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive. Denise Scott Brown planning architecture people At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it. Denise Scott Brown architecture mother feelings We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. Denise Scott Brown analysis architecture sociology Art and architecture - all the arts - do not have to exist in isolation. Donald Judd isolation architecture art It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry Riley talking about how he thinks so much about cinema. I'd love to see more of a rupture between mediums and a flow between them. Doug Aitken musician architecture thinking If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. Edith Wharton sanity architecture may There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. Edwin Lutyens design greatness architecture «1234567891011»
