quotes about architecture

8/3/2019 Quotes About Architecture

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10 - All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really anocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. - G. K. Chesterton

11 - We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. - Winston Churchill

12 - When Moses was alive, these pyramids were a thousand years old. Here began the historyof architecture. Here people learned to measure time by a calendar, to plot the stars byastronomy and chart the earth by geometry. And here they developed that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity. - Walter Cronkite

13 - Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely,on the soul. - Ernest Dimnet

14 - Buildings designed exclusively on scientific principles will depress their occupants andconstrain their creativity. - Robert Evans

15 - Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring / Rich clients in hordes to their knees; / Justgive me a home, in a great circle dome / Where stresses and strains are at ease. -Buckminster Fuller

16 - The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. - Frank Gehry

17 - I call architecture frozen music. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 - A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.- Walter Gropius

19 - Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all

stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture. - ErnestHemingway

20 - Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. - ErnestHemingway


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21 - Architecture is the art of how to waste space. - Philip Johnson

22 - My career is a trajectory from abstraction to reality. The architect's role is to make themythic real. - Sotirios Kotoulas

23 - Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights. - BarbaraKruger

24 - Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described.We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as acomplete whole. - Maya Lin

25 - Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture arebut images, are merely shadows cast by outward things on stone or canvas, having inthemselves no separate existence. Architecture, existing in itself, and not in seeming asomething it is not, surpasses them as substance shadow. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

26 - The architect / Built his great heart into these sculptured stones, / And with him toiledhis children, and their lives / Were builded, with his own, into the walls, / As offerings untoGod. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

27 - I meant to express mountain architecture, but failed in the solidity which had firstattracted me. - J. E. H. MacDonald - sketching at Lake O'Hara...

28 - It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. - Michelangelo

29 - Even Picasso at his most bizarre was bound by a kind of formal architecture within theframe. Of course it's one thing to know what you're looking for, it's another to find it. - KenMosby

30 - Although they are not always the primary focus, most of my work contains architecturalelements. They suggest a human presence even when no figure is actually seen. - MichaelNevin


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42 - Minimalism in conception demands maximalism in execution. - unknown

43 - Someone began this with a thought, a sheet of paper and a pencil... all this magnificencewas achieved without computers and slide rules... cranes or forklifts, and murals were

painted without cameras or projectors. It all makes one feel very insignificant, doesn't it? -Robert Wade - on 12th century Cathedral Sainte-Cecile in Albi...

44 - In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The endis to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight. - HenryWatton

45 - You can't make an architect. But you can... open the doors and windows toward the lightas you see it. - Frank Lloyd Wright

46 - Architecture... is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture if they a renot inspired we won't have the architecture... that we must have if this country is goingto be beautiful. - Frank Lloyd Wright

47 - Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, toput man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life,of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that wesometimes touch upon when we use the word order. - Frank Lloyd Wright

48 - A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.- Frank Lloyd Wright

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. Ayn Rand

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when

you drive. Helmut Jahn

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means

when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. Louis Kahn
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A house is a machine for living in. Le Corbusier

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at

the site. Frank Lloyd Wright

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a staticobject. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction

with spaces and environmental condition. John Portman

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those

sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. Julia Morgan

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the

teacup, but the tea. Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible andhopefully beautiful things; that's all. Harry Seidler

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. Le Corbusier

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. Louis Kahn

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry
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Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. Arne Jacobsen

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at

the right cost. Harry von Zell

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that

building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

Martin Puryear

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the

same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. Alvar Aalto

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. Louis Sullivan

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. Daniel Libeskind

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes

seem more energetic. Antonio Gaudi

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. Jimmy Breslin

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. John Osborne
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Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that therecould be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead

giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. Enid Nemy

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. Helmut Jahn

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter

of his time, his day, his age. Frank Lloyd Wright

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning andarchitectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it

seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. James Rouse

Form follows function. Louis Sullivan

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. Richard Rogers

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique,poetic, products of the heart. Arthur Erickson

I am but an architectural composer. Alexander Jackson Davis

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. Tadao Ando

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. Ayn Rand

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Luis Barragan
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7. L aughing Jokes8. E valuating Questions

Short Stories will make the Audience Curious

Any speech topics under the earth will have a story. An introductory speech that has aninteresting story will grab the audiences' attention at the very beginning of the presentation. Anexperienced orator will write down some interesting stories at the speech writing stage itself.

Proverbs Work Good for a Introduction Speech and aWelcome Speech:

Nine out of ten introductory speeches will have inspiring quotes, famous sayings, and popularproverbs. Here is a sample speech of an orator who is talking about motivation skills in aseminar:

"Good morning ladies and gentlemen, Jim Ron rightly said "Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going". Today we are going talk about various types of motivation and the factors that affects them."

Many online resources are available where orators can find proverbs and quotes on almost anyspeech topics. Two of the most popular websites on proverbs and quotes include thinkexist.comand brainyquotes.com.

Experience is One of the Introduction Speech Examples thatShow Human Touch

Narrating ones' own positive experience brings credibility and trust to the orators from thespectators. Describing and relating the topic to an incident that orators themselves have gonethrough will be helpful especially during persuasive speeches.

One of the persuasive speech examples of an insurance agent is illustrated below:"I myself met with an accident two years before and this medical policy gave me a cashless

facility at one of the nearest hospitals"

This speech sample simply talks about how this medical policy helped the insurance agent inhis/her own life.

Current Affairs is Hot and Fresh and is ready to be Servedto the Spectators--On any Speech Topics


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Orators, public speakers and trainers should seek information that is very recent and updated.Newspapers, magazines, online resources and journals are the primary sources to get informationon current affairs.

Theories, Laws, and Postulates is yet Another Example of anInformative Speech.

The speech outline of a scientific topic differs from management of behavioral topic. Unlike athank you speech or a welcome speech, the keynote speaker has to bring historical evidences andtime tested proofs for topics such as science and technology.

Here is a sample of informative speech outline:"The third law of Newton says 'For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction' but weneed prove this law, I will give you one simple example"'

So, laws, theories, postulates, historical evidences are some informative speech ideas that areused by lectures, professors and scientists.

Amusing Facts Keeps the Audience at the Edge of theirSeats--Entertaining Speech Idea

Both a welcome speech and a farewell speech can be inserted with weird or amusing facts.

Here is one of the welcome Introduction Speech Examples from a college graduate:"Do you know that sound travels 4 times faster in water than it does through air? Well, today

you will find answers for many science questions. Good Morning and welcome to the quarterlyscience seminar. On behalf of the college students I thank my teachers and professors for organizing such an insightful event."

Clips, Videos and Audios gives Shape to an InformativeSpeech

The speech outline differs for each topic or ideas and an informative speech demands facts,details and explanations. Video clips are the best way to show something rather than tellingabout it. Use of clips, flowcharts and diagrams are some of the demonstration speech ideastrainers, public speakers and orators use to persuade the spectators.

Laughing Jokes is one of the Introduction Speech Examplesfor all kinds of Speeches


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One of the uniqueness of humans is laughter. It is worth spending time researching humorelements on the topic of discussion. With a little effort, every other speech could be madedesigned with appropriate humor elements, jokes and anecdotes.

Evaluating Questions to know about the Audience

Ideally, open ended and rhetorical questions are used in the beginning of the presentation to buildrapport with the spectators. However, care must be taken that the question are not deviating fromthe intentions and objective of the topic of discussion.

Here is a sample introduction speech that use evaluating questions"How many of you are mechanical engineers?" audiences raise their hands. "How many havealready attended this training in your previous company?" audiences raise their hands.

Introduction Speech Examples, sometimes called intro of speeches, is an opportunity to createthe first impression in any presentation. Public speakers and orators should draft a speech outlineto include relevant introduction to attract the audiences' attention.

INTRODUCTORY SPEECH - USAIN BOLT

Good morning Ladies and Gentlemen,

It is both and honor and a privilege to be able to introduce you to a role model of note, aman of distinction - Usain bolt.

Usain Bolt is a Jamaican sprinter and he was born on 21st of August 1986.

Usain has distinguished himself as a world class sprinter and he holds the Olympic and WorldRecords for the 100 meters in 9.69 seconds and the 200 meters in 19.30 seconds. Usain hastaken his level of excellence one step further - and together with his teammates - he also wonthe 4X100 meters relay in the amazing time of 37.10 seconds.

What makes Usain's achievements all the more remarkable is the fact that they were all setat the 2008 Summer Olympics. Usain became the first man to win all three events at a singleOlympics since Carl Lewis in1984 and the fist man in history to set world records in all threeevents at a single Olympics. His name and his achievements in sprinting have earned him themedia nickname "Lightning Bolt".

I am sure that you all know a great deal about his public sprinting life, but there is more to Usain than just running.

Sidebar: great sample introductory speeches always show the speaker's human side too.


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Usain enjoys dancing and he is often described as a laid-back and relaxed character. Thefirst sport to interest him was cricket and he said that if he was not a sprinter, he would be afast bowler instead. He is a fan of Sachin Tendulkar, Chris Gayle and Matthew Hayden.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm sure you will agree that the world of cricket has lost out - but

the world of sprinting has gained a legendary role-model.

Please join me in welcoming Usain Bolt to address you this morning with his words of wisdom.

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