Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
When god creat the world, first he must think abour architects
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Ashok Sharma
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
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Jamie L. Harding
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
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William S. Burroughs
Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
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Vincent Scully
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?
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Charles
More Quotes By Renzo Piano
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or...
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.
Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride.
I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.
