3 December 2020 John Howe Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.
3 December 2020 Arne Jacobsen 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.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
3 December 2020 Nancy Banks Smith In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
3 December 2020 Jay Chiat The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.
3 December 2020 Stephen Sprouse But after the time there I’d had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn’t last very long.
3 December 2020 Anthony Holden 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.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building.
3 December 2020 Arthur Erickson The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
3 December 2020 Joseph Kosinski I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.
3 December 2020 Ralph Erskine The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse.
3 December 2020 Tadao Ando Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
3 December 2020 Rem Koolhaas 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.
3 December 2020 Louis Kahn Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 December 2020 Maya Lin I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
3 December 2020 Robert A. M. Stern The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.
3 December 2020 James Wyatt Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
3 December 2020 Kenzo Tange Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.
3 December 2020 James H. Breasted 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.
3 December 2020 Bernard Levin What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?
3 December 2020 Alvar Aalto We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
3 December 2020 John Ruskin We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
3 December 2020 Richard Meier Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
