Danh ngôn thuộc danh mục: architecture

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

Barcelona is a beautiful city. I love the buildings and the architecture and always enjoy being close to that. It makes sense as an art person to work in places like that, it always feels nice and creative.

Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.

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.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

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.

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.

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

A house is a machine for living in.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture.

I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens. I moved from London to Hertfordshire, so I could get a garden.

I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents - who had little money - made the most of this.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

Form follows function.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

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.

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.

Less is more.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

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.

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.

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

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.

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.