Quotes About Traditional Architecture

#1. I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification. The next world consists of two destinations: One is a palace for the spirit and an endless kingdom of wonder, while the other is cold and dark and unthinkable.

Dean Koontz

#2. Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

Tadao Ando

#3. When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

Tadao Ando

#4. It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals..

Margaret Starbird

#5. I have a traditional view of the afterlife ... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it's on purpose. We aren't supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

Doug TenNapel

#6. I have led you down a road of deception just to correct you and make you look like an uneducated ass

Ashley Newell

#7. We tend to pay attention to that which is the most current on our radar screen.

Warren Rudman

#8. Acting, at least for me, is very unreal, and when I'm doing it, I actually feel embarrassed.

Steve Vai

#9. I stand by whatever I read from Univision.

Donald Trump

#10. Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

Thom Mayne

#11. My brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

William Styron

#12. The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

Amitai Etzioni

#13. There is no greater motor for architecture than religious fervor. Ancient examples include the Inca, Aztec Egyptian civilizations. In more recent times, Christianity gave rise to the Gothic and Romanesque architecture of the European middle ages and Islam produced the wonders of the Ottoman Empire.

Helen Grant Ross

#14. Give what You command and command what You will.

Saint Augustine

#15. Eugenic goals are most likely to be attained under another name than eugenics.

Frederick Osborn

#16. After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

Harry Seidler

#17. In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional.

Leon Krier

#18. I believe today that there is no film and no shot in a film that is worth a squirrel getting a sprained ankle.

William Friedkin

#19. Fuuuuuuck......No'One....

J.R. Ward

#20. The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn't really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

Michael Hansmeyer