#architecture

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#escape #everything #hors #into #led

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ↗

— James Rouse

#architectural #basic #belief #design #i

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. ↗

— William Devane

#asked #fix #getting #hard #i

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architects #luxury #many #reject #significant

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality. ↗

— Charlotte Bunch

#become #being #bigger #called #equality

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#find #hollywood #i #instead #interesting

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#buildings #our #shape #thereafter #us

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#place #should #speak #time #timelessness

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#city #each #happen #i #i think