Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
“Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”
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Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.
“Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”
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“Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.”
“I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.”
“I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.”
“Performing arts buildings are complex. The acoustics, the sight lines and all that have to just be perfect. So you begin with just making these things sublime as musical instruments. And if you fail there, you have failed it all.”
“There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.”
“Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”
“When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn't get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.”
“Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.”
“The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities.”
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
“I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.”
“I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'”