Quotes About Contemporary Architecture

#1. I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Rem Koolhaas

#2. Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid - with curving lines and organic shapes - and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

Amanda Hearst

#3. It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

Fabio Novembre

#4. Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could search the past for its conspicuous successes using them both freely and discursively as the basis for a contemporary architecture.

Karl Friedrich Schinkel

#5. I continue to vote against such spending increases, but sometimes I think some of my Republican colleagues forgot that we were sent here to shrink the federal government, not to grow it.

Jeff Miller

#6. They're just beginning to open the doors in their minds"
"But once you've been through that door, you can't just keep going through it over and over again ...

Tom Wolfe

#7. ... We never will have balance in our lives unless our finances are securely under control.

M. Russell Ballard

#8. My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

Aga Khan III

#9. The deepest roots of this modern shift are twofold: in epistemology, the romanticist advocacy of feeling as superior to reason; in ethics, the altruist advocacy of others as superior to self. The result is a view of morality in which the ruling standard is: the feelings of others.

Leonard Peikoff

#10. To be a light in a child's world, nothing is more beautiful.

Marty Rubin

#11. What separates those who go under and those who rise above adversity is the strength of their will and their hunger for power.

50 Cent

#12. I guess you just feel like there's a whole story that's not being told in movies. You're only seeing the macho guy version of a story that from the woman's side, may be completely different.

Heather Graham

#13. Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

E.L. Konigsburg

#14. Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it's not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don't want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

I.M. Pei

#15. I am vulnerable, but I am confident enough in myself and in you to expose my vulnerability.

Charles N. Seashore

#16. I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.

Kangana Ranaut

#17. Many churches have molded their programs around the community - not the Word of God.

Billy Graham