architecture

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. – Harry Seidler

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. – Ralph Erskine

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time. – James H. Breasted

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. – George Hickenlooper

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business. – James Maslow

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play. – Philip Warren Anderson

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. – Kenzo Tange

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. – Kenzo Tange

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. – Kenzo Tange

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

I have no requirements for a style of architecture. – Michael Graves

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. – Michael Graves

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth. – Michael Graves

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. – Thomas Reid

Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel

I think architecture has to be a gift. – Jean Nouvel

Architecture is politics. – Mitchell Kapor

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? – Bernard Levin

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture. – Gustav Stickley