Quotes About Architectural Design

#1. My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte.

Bobby Seale

#2. All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's difficult to quantify the attachment.

Tadao Ando

#3. Always beware an unsigned architectural design.

Martin Filler

#4. 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

#5. I aim to create furniture that appears in a room as buildings on a skyline and reminds the viewer of the interaction between objects of design and architectural space.

Gae Aulenti

#6. I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality.

Zaha Hadid

#7. The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context.

Vittorio Gregotti

#8. My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Ettore Sottsass

#9. I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

George Michael

#10. We farm workers are closest to food production. We were the first to recognize the serious health hazards of agriculture pesticides to both consumers and ourselves.

Cesar Chavez

#11. If one more person tells me how big this country is, I'm going to go kick a koala.

Elle Lothlorien

#12. Snohetta promotes a more democratic workplace atmosphere than most other architectural offices. This may merely reflect prevalent employment practices in Scandinavia, but Snohetta places a stronger emphasis on group participation in the design process than typical high-style firms.

Martin Filler

#13. if fossil fuel companies are going to help pay for the shift to renewable energy, and for the broader costs of a climate destabilized by their pollution, it will be because they are forced to do so by law.

Naomi Klein

#14. Writing generally, it may be said that in design, roof, and general aspect, Japanese Buddhist temples are all alike. The sacred architectural idea expresses itself in nearly the same form always.

Isabella Bird

#15. The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

Richard Saul Wurman

#16. Because nothing between human beings is uncomplicated and there's no way to speak of human beings without simplifying and misrepresenting them.

Joyce Carol Oates

#17. ...the Sierra Nevada claimed me, aching knees and pumping heart, as one of it's own. Here, like nowhere else, I'm home.

Chris Robertson

#18. It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own ... style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

Nancy Lancaster

#19. Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

Stephen Bayley

#20. We depend on computers when we ourselves haven't mastered the principles behind what we are asking computers to design.
Glenn Murcutt - A Singular Architectural Practice page 16

Glenn Murcutt

#21. Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

Michael Graves

#22. The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.

Vinton Cerf

#23. Who will adhere to him that abandons himself?

Philip Sidney

#24. People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.

Zaha Hadid

#25. My architectural drive was to design new types of buildings to help poor people, especially following natural disasters and catastrophes ... I will use whatever time is left to me to keep doing what I have been doing, which is to help humanity.

Frei Otto

#26. You want to get rich in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love others and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.

Wallace D. Wattles

#27. Psalm 1 1God's blessings follow you and await you at every turn:

Anonymous

#28. Music makes or breaks an atmosphere. It helps to create the mood and also is a very important aural cue; simply shut off the music when you want people to leave.

Lisa Vanderpump

#29. Pleasure comes naturally as a by-product of pursuing something else, like the good of another person, and the best way to ruin pleasure is to make it your goal.

J. Budziszewski

#30. As fiction writers, we are entertainers.

Bob Mayer