Top 17 Quotes About Concrete Architecture
#1. If you don't want to cook, you should try throwing a dish.
Kyung-Sook Shin
#2. If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
Michael Mandelbaum
#3. Love is a decision?' 'That's right. A decision. Not a feeling. That's what you young people don't realise. That's why you're always off divorcing each other.
Liane Moriarty
#4. Like the burlesque comedian, I am abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement.
E. E. Cummings
#5. There are no accomplished golf tour operators in Indonesia, so a golf holiday there is a do-it-yourself operation. But don't let that deter you.
Raymond Bonner
#6. They swore by concrete. They built for eternity.
Gunter Grass
#7. Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.
Peter Zumthor
#8. Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
Daniel Libeskind
#9. A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.
Natalia Makarova
#10. As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.
Michael Arad
#11. The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.
Iain McGilchrist
#12. The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus in which the art of architecture lies buried.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#13. You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.
But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
Le Corbusier
#15. Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.
Ben Aaronovitch
#16. If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
John Ruskin
#17. I'd better say at the start that I don't actually believe in magic any more than I believe in astrology, because I'm a Taurean and we don't go in for all that weirdo occult stuff.
Terry Pratchett