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I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
Charlie Rose
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Arthur Erickson
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
David Allan Coe
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
Roger Waters
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.
Bruce Jackson
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
Richard Rogers
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.
James H. Breasted
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.
Gustav Stickley
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
Tim Gunn
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
Arne Jacobsen
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.
Guillaume Apollinaire
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...
Victor Hugo
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.
Maya Lin
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
Larry Wall
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
Kenzo Tange
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.
