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The phenomenon of architecture is a development of the phenomenon of man.
Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.
Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co- creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not beenreached.Whether peopleare artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.
Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
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.
You can't learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting.You shouldn't talk about art, you should do it.
They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.
It's got to be clear, back in your own mind, that serving the client is onething and theart of architectureanother.
Surelyarchitecture is the organization for pleasure of enclosed space. And what more magnificent enclosure than a town, a place, a place where the spirit is cuddled, made serene, made proud, happy, or excited depending on the ceremony, the day, the hour.
The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.
Architecture provides the framework for a civilization (housing, work, leisure, circulation); so architecture is also town planning. It is no longer possible to separate architecture and town planningtheyare one and the same thing.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Architecture is an art which is basically geometrical. The cube is the basis of architecture because the right angle is necessarythe steps of a staircase consist of vertical and horizontal planes and the corners of rooms are nearly always right angles.We need right angles. 542
Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.
The Fujiyama of Architectureat once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.
Thetechnologyofdecentralization can bethesaviouror assassin of contemporary and future society. The role of architects may be uncertain, but the role of architecture is not. In order to look forward society may sometimes haveto look back.This it should do inorder to learnfrom previous mistakes and oversights and to preclude similar eventualities in the future. This does not imply historical dependency, as some would assert. The symbiosis of architecture and technology should prevail, engendered by honesty and integrity. The task will not be easy.
In the final analysis, all architecture reveals the application of human ingenuity to the satisfaction of human needs. And among these needs are not only shelter, warmth and accommodation, but also the needs, felt at every moment in every part of the world in endlessly different ways, for something more profound, evocative and universal, for beauty, for permanence, for immortality.
L'architecture est le miroir me" me de la vie. Il n'est que de jeter les yeux sur des e difices pour sentir la pre sence du passe , l'esprit d'un lieu; ils sont le reflet de la socie te . Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.
There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes.
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life.
The whole basis of the views of architecture prevailing today must be displaced by therecognition that the only possible point of departure for our artistic creation is modern life.
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.
I know we can't have a great architecture while it is only for the landlord.
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