#architect

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#becomes #elements #justification #longer #nature

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

#architecture #art #civilization #first #first time

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#building #built #buying #down #expensive

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#great #great work #helps #means #organization

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. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#architecture #british #certainties #cling #completely

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants. ↗

— Michael Dell

#both #care #customer #design #interesting

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#bottom #bottom line #contemporary #eliminates #expression

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#choice #consultants #forward #industry #itself

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. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#am #architectural #architecture #beginning #beijing

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#architecture #bureaucrats #complicated #criticism #functions