#architecture

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ↗

— Edwin Lutyens

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I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year. ↗

— Barry Mann

#architecture #college #i #i quit #quit

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture. ↗

— Steve Martin

#architecture #dancing #like #music #talking

Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works. ↗

— Stewart Brand

#art #convention #architecture

Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected by our surroundings even when they are made of vinyl and would be expensive and time-consuming to ameliorate. It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the color of our wallpaper and that our sense of purpose may be derailed by an unfortunate bedspread. At the same time, it means acknowledging that buildings are able to solve no more than a fraction of our dissatisfactions or prevent evil from unfolding under their watch. Architecture, even at its most accomplished, will only ever constitute a small, and imperfect (expensive, prone to destruction, and morally unreliable), protest against the state of things. More awkwardly still, architecture asks us to imagine that happiness might often have an unostentatious, unheroic character to it, that it might be found in a run of old floorboards or in a wash of morning light over a plaster wall—in undramatic, frangible scenes of beauty that move us because we are aware of the darker backdrop against which they are set. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

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I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. ↗

— Roger Waters

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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

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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

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We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#anywhere #build #buildings #go #restless