#architect

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. ↗

— Michael Graves

#any #between #equity #function #pragmatic

For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway carriages can be used for teaching, but as one of the most powerful question marks ever placed against the architecture of university education. ↗

— Roy Landau

#education #university #architecture

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architect #architecture #art #astonishingly #build

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#aesthetic #almost #always #architecture #aspect

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#art #how #space #waste

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#architects #beyond #deaths #live #their

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs. ↗

— Harry Seidler

#arch #barrel #extended #inventors #romans

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

#contemplate #dog #equipped #happened #only

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. ↗

— Adolf Loos

#architect #arouses #make #man #more

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new film, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. Jim Jarmusch ↗

— Austin Kleon

#creativity #imagination #inspiration #architecture