279 private quotes tagged architecture

“It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?”— Helmut Jahn

“The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.”— Helmut Jahn

“The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.”— Helmut Jahn

“I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.”— Caroline Wozniacki

“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”— Minoru Yamasaki

“Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.”— Minoru Yamasaki

“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”— Minoru Yamasaki

“If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.”— Arne Jacobsen

“Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.”— Stephen Gardiner

“The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.”— Stephen Gardiner

“The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.”— Stephen Gardiner

“The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.”— Stephen Gardiner

“Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.”— Stephen Gardiner

“Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.”— Stephen Gardiner

“French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.”— Stephen Gardiner

“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.”— Tadao Ando

“The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.”— Tadao Ando

“Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.”— Tadao Ando

“Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.”— Tadao Ando

“All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.”— Tadao Ando

“Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.”— Tadao Ando

“Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.”— Tadao Ando

“People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.”— Rem Koolhaas

“I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.”— Richard Rogers

“My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.”— Luis Barragan