c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about.
— Giambattista Valli
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.
— Oscar Niemeyer
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.
— Donald Barthelme
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
— Andre Leon Talley
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
— Zaha Hadid
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
— Peter Zumthor
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.
— Peter Zumthor
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
— Peter Eisenman
Architecture is definitely a political act.
— Peter Eisenman
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.
— Sufjan Stevens
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.
— Kenneth Frampton
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
— Martin Filler
Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.
— Joshua Prince-Ramus
The future of architecture is culture.
— Philip Johnson
Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
— Louis Sullivan
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.
— Jason Silva
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
— Thom Mayne
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
— Claes Oldenburg
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'
— Robin Lord Taylor
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
When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you're culturally devoid of something - of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself - you're either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.
— Tim Burton
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in building some small houses.
— Mario Botta
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.
— Mario Botta
I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.
— Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.
— Louis Kahn
Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture - the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.
— Steven Holl
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not like it. That's OK.
— Thom Mayne
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
Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.
— Rudolf Steiner
On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
— Victor Hugo
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
— Ian Mckellen
Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.
— Issey Miyake
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.
— Richard Rogers
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
— Martin Filler
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.
— Martin Filler
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.
— Tim Gunn
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.
— Daniel Libeskind
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.
— Charles Jencks
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
— Steven Holl
I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
— Magnus Larsson
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
— Henry David Thoreau
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.
— Bill Gates
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.
— P. J. O'Rourke
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
— Patti Smith
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.
— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.
— John Updike
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you're just not looking hard enough.
— Moby
I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
— Venus Williams
I love architecture.
— Chris Pine
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
— Lord Byron
I'm very interested in architecture.
— Nikki Sixx
I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.
— Twyla Tharp
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.
— David Shields
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.
— Sydney Pollack
If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.
— Sydney Pollack
What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it's seeing more than one part of the building at one time.
— Sydney Pollack
The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That's where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you're more a curator, but that's important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.
— Joshua Bell
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.
— Caroline Wozniacki
The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.
— Vint Cerf
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
— John Ruskin
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
— Steve Martin
If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.
— Cass Sunstein
It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.
— Gretchen Rubin
Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.
— Rudolf Steiner
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
— Bryant H. McGill
Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.
— Travis Kalanick
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
— Hugo Chavez
I loved medieval architecture when I was very small I don't know why.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
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
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering around London. There's nothing like it - the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture - there really is nothing like it.
— David Harewood
When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.
— Jonathan Anderson
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial.
— Zaha Hadid
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.
— Daryl Hall
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space - nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.
— Peter Falk
If I weren't involved with food, I'd be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.
— Alice Waters
Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry's very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.
— Rick Perlstein
Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.
— Sarah Parcak
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
— Rachel McAdams
There's a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they're very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.
— Ben Horowitz
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
— Adam Carolla
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
— John Irving
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture imagine where things can happen in space. 
— Robert Wilson
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.
— Robert Wilson
The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.
— Denis Villeneuve
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
— Catherine Deneuve
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.
— Vera Wang
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.
— Shahid Khan
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.
— Nate Berkus
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it's designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it's done by some of the world's largest corporations.
— Jack Dangermond
I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.
— Jack Dangermond
I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.
— Frank Gehry
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.
— Frank Gehry
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.
— Frank Gehry
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.
— Jeff Fortenberry
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face it's like architecture or mathematics. 
— Philip Treacy
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
— Arthur Erickson
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.
— Arthur Erickson
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
— Arthur Erickson
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
— Arthur Erickson
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
— Arthur Erickson
Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.
— Arthur Erickson
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?
— Arthur Erickson
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.
— Arthur Erickson
The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
— Arthur Erickson
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
— Arthur Erickson
I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
— Harold Ramis
I think it's important to approach a house in a way that's reflective of the original environment. Maybe I'm a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.
— Kelsey Grammer
I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.
— Aldis Hodge
I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.
— Aldis Hodge
When you're in a creative flow with somebody - and I had this back in architecture school - you're just so passionate about what you're doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you'll be madly in love with them. It's just that thrill of creating.
— Catherine Hardwicke
It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.
— Andrew Luck
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.
— Richard Rogers
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.
— Richard Rogers
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
— Richard Rogers
Architecture is always political.
— Richard Rogers
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.
— Peter York
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic - symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture - became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.
— Peter York
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.
— Havelock Ellis
The architecture for 'Paladin' - given that it's at least three books, with the possibility of more - turned out to be bigger than anything I've ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.
— Mark Frost
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.
— Henry Paulson
I like the architecture of lingerie.
— Colleen Atwood
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.
— Clayton M. Christensen
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
— Nick Clegg
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?
— Jeremy Renner
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
Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.
— Kevin McCloud
Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.
— Maya Lin
The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.
— Maya Lin
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement - publicly sponsored housing.
— Martin Filler
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.
— Martin Filler
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression. 
— Leonard Mlodinow
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
— Maya Lin
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus - the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe's sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.
— Martin Filler
By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.
— Martin Filler
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.
— Maya Lin
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
— Maya Lin
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'
— Martin Filler
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
— Martin Filler
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes - conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect's control.
— Martin Filler
One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.
— Martin Filler
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.
— Martin Filler
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.
— Martin Filler
To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.
— Romesh Gunesekera
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
I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
— Hans-Ulrich Obrist
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
— Thom Mayne
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.
— Thom Mayne
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.
— Thom Mayne
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you're offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: 'Do I want to be a part of this?'
— Thom Mayne
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
— Thom Mayne
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.
— Thom Mayne
In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they're all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.
— Thom Mayne
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
— Thom Mayne
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration.
— Thom Mayne
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.
— Thom Mayne
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
— Thom Mayne
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
'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.
— Darryl Pinckney
As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.
— Shane Carruth
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
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects' personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.
— Walter Gropius
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.
— Walter Gropius
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
— Ai Weiwei
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
What people want, above all, is order.
— Stephen Gardiner
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
— Stephen Gardiner
French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.
— Stephen Gardiner
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
— Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
— Stephen Gardiner
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
— Stephen Gardiner
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
— Stephen Gardiner
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
— Dan Brown
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
— Christopher Nolan
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.
— Philip Johnson
We all love musical architecture there's no doubt about that.
— Levon Helm
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.
— Vince Vaughn
I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.
— Piet Mondrian
Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it's changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water's edge.
— Jo Nesbo
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.
— G-Eazy
I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.
— Kathryn Harrison
As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.
— Mary Lou Jepsen
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.
— Amor Towles
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
There's something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don't get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I'd most like to live, I would always choose London.
— Charlie Cox
After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.
— Keerthy Suresh
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.
— Rem Koolhaas
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
— Rem Koolhaas
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.
— Rem Koolhaas
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
— Rem Koolhaas
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.
— Rem Koolhaas
I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.
— Susan Vreeland
I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.
— Daniel Wu
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.
— Sara Sheridan
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.
— Helmut Jahn
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?
— Helmut Jahn
I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
— Helmut Jahn
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
— Helmut Jahn
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.
— Tadao Ando
I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
— Tadao Ando
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.
— Tadao Ando
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.
— Tadao Ando
Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they're based on Western methods and materials.
— Tadao Ando
My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that... architecture.
— Taylor Schilling
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
— Tony Scott
Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows - the south and east oriels - are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.
— Bayard Taylor
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains - and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.
— Marcus Brigstocke
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
— Francisco Costa
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.
— Marilyn Hacker
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it's different - even uptown it's really grand, and there's no real segregation there. It's all mixed up.
— Imogen Poots
I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
— Cameron Mackintosh
You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn't permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can't visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can't.
— Leonard Susskind
I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.
— Preston Sturges
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
The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
— Joel Coen
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
— Michael Graves
I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.
— Michael Graves
Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.
— Michael Graves
The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.
— Michael Graves
The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.
— Michael Graves
For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn't do for myself.
— Michael Graves
I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.
— Michael Graves
You can never draw enough or read enough - reading about architecture, in other words.
— Michael Graves
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.
— Anthony Holden
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
The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn't really have movements in the same way. Instead it's made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.
— Doug Aitken
'Station to Station' came out of a sense of urgency - a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.
— Doug Aitken
I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don't think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.
— Jools Holland
I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.
— Oren Peli
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
— Peter Zumthor
Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.
— Peter Zumthor
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.
— Marc Newson
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.
— Parker Stevenson
If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.
— Paul Rand
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
— William Devane
I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.
— Sharon Horgan
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.
— Goldwin Smith
Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.
— Goldwin Smith
I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.
— Charlie Rose
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what's in style, what's current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.
— Robert Pinsky
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.
— Alex Winter
I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.
— Barry Mann
When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.
— Roman Coppola
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
— Daniel Libeskind
In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
— Alain Robert
Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.
— Theodor Mommsen
When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.
— Joanna Going
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
— Arne Jacobsen
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
— Arne Jacobsen