#architect

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. ↗

— Hugh Sidey

#american family #architects #assembled #athletes #billionaires

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. ↗

— Robert A. M. Stern

#about #any #architect #because #between

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#inhabited #sculpture

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #becomes #building #then

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #buildings #done #excluded #i

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. ↗

— Nancy Banks Smith

#door #experience #extending #keep #lavatory

It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside! ↗

— André Breton

#boredom #future #age

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#beauty #architecture

Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#cities #language #possiblity #walking #architecture

Out of the closets and into the museums, libraries, architectural monuments, concert halls, bookstores, recording studios and film studios of the world. Everything belongs to the inspired and dedicated thief…. Words, colors, light, sounds, stone, wood, bronze belong to the living artist. They belong to anyone who can use them. Loot the Louvre! A bas l’originalité, the sterile and assertive ego that imprisons us as it creates. Vive le vol-pure, shameless, total. We are not responsible. Steal anything in sight. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#films #hollywood #architecture