tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80586513546858121512023-06-20T19:09:33.830+05:30Gallery of ARCHITECTURAL QUOTATIONSfind some famous quotes on architecture under one roof....GALLERY OF ARCHITECTURAL QUOTATIONShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15933008727835869069noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8058651354685812151.post-4366921443783320112007-12-19T23:23:00.000+05:302009-08-25T09:14:08.451+05:30<p><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#ff9900;"><em><u><strong>soME INteREsting QUotes by SOme famOUS and SomE unKNOwn archiTECTs.</strong></u></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial;"><em></em></span></p><ul><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Style is trendy and fleeting. Bad taste is timeless.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Anonymous<br /></strong></span></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. (on using a grid)<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Frank Gehry<br /></strong></span></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>The scary cousin in architecture's dysfunctional family (on Frank Gehry)<br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;">Zev Borrow</span></strong><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>When a building is as good as that one, fuck the art. (On Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim as a place to experience art)<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Philip Johnson</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Ram-shack-le /'ram-shak-el/ adj. : Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Ambrose Bierce<br /></strong></span></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Architecture is the art of how to waste space.<br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666666;"><strong>Philip Johnson</strong></span><br /></span></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>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.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Frank Lloyd Wright</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666666;">Bruno Zevi</span><br /></span></strong></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Ignorance transcends architecture.<br /><strong><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#666666;">James Gaskin</span><br /></span></strong></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>The most important question when any new architecture is introduced is "So what?"<br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Anonymous</span> </span></span></strong><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>When does a building actually become a built?<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Le Corbusier</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>ar-chi-tect \är-ke-,tekt\ n. One who believes that conception comes before erection.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Rob Daly</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Home is where you hang your Architect.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Clare Booth Luce</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Q: What would I do if I won a million dollars?<br />A: Probably just keep practicing architecture till it was gone.<br /><strong><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;">The Management</span></strong><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>We shape our buildings: thereafter they shape us.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Sir Winston Churchill</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Samuel Taylor</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Thomas Fuller</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>All architects want to live beyond their deaths.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Philip Johnson</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Roy Lichtenstein</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Ah, to build, to build!<br />That is the noblest art of all the arts.<br />Painting and sculpture are but images,<br />Are merely shadows cast by outward things<br />On stone or canvas, having in themselves<br />No separate existence. Architecture,<br />Existing in itself, and not in seeming<br />A something it is not, surpasses them<br />As substance shadow.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollonian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic _expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Friedrich Nietzsche</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Le Corbusier was the sort of relentlessly rational intellectual that only France loves wholeheartedly, the logician who flies higher and higher in ever-decreasing circles until, with one last, utterly inevitable induction, he disappears up his own fundamental aperture and emerges in the fourth dimension as a needle-thin umber bird.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Tom Wolfe</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>John Ruskin</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>John Ruskin</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>E.B.White</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Form ever follows function.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Louis Henry Sullivan</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Less is more<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Mies</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Less is a bore.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Robert Venturi</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Less is more work.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Patric McCue</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Less is more, except when it is not enough...<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>unknown</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Henry David Thoreau</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Nancy Banks-Smith</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Frank Lloyd Wright</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>All fine architectural values are human vales, else not valuable.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Frank Lloyd Wright</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Architecture is "frozen music"... Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music."<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe</strong></span></em><br /></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Ludwig Van Beethoven</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Nancy Banks-Smith</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Use your eyes; plagiarize. (On borrowing design strategies from other cultures.)<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Steven Ehrlich</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Liberate the perimeter for the people! (On pushing the managers towards the core so that everybody can share the view in high rise offices.)<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Laura Hartman</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Architecture is easy: you just stare at the paper until droplets of blood appear on your forehead.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Unknown</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.<br /><strong><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Ambrose Bierce</span><br /></span></strong></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.<br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Charles, Prince of Wales</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>But what if we are dealing with fools? (On design juries)<br /><strong><span style="color:#666666;"><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;">Mies</span> </span></strong><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Commodity, firmness, delight...<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Vitruvius</strong></span><br /></em></span></li><li><span style="font-family:arial;"><em>Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.<br /><span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;color:#666666;"><strong>Seneca</strong></span> </em></span></li></ul>GALLERY OF ARCHITECTURAL QUOTATIONShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15933008727835869069noreply@blogger.com1