One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.
The visual architecture of ‘Biutiful’ is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.
New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture – even the local superstitions. It’s a sensory experience on all levels and there’s a story lurking around every corner.
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
I’m inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron’s invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.
I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested in good architecture as anybody else.
In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.
I don’t see any difference between architecture and engineering. It’s the same profession.
Barcelona is a beautiful city. I love the buildings and the architecture and always enjoy being close to that. It makes sense as an art person to work in places like that, it always feels nice and creative.
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.
I don’t separate architecture, design, or culture. What’s more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone.
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids’ forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.
For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that’s very pop. I don’t want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.
Architecture is about public space held by buildings.
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
I wanted a real profession. And I’d always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what’s kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don’t.
I don’t believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: ‘So what else is new?’
I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.
I’ve always been interested in art, architecture, color.
When I started university, I didn’t know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.
I would fix other people’s lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
I’m so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn’t be linked.
The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.
The architecture in Barcelona is very unique, and I think it’s something to truly spend some time getting to know all the cool places.
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Architecture is a code. It’s a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It’s a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There’s nowhere else like it.
Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.
I suppose I’m trying to build an architecture that’s as timeless as possible, although we’re all creatures of our age.
We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future.
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it’s completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it’s designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it’s done by some of the world’s largest corporations.
My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.
Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.
I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.
