Simon Colton with CLIP-driven BigGAN, May 2021
See also: Etopia exhibition Gallery Making-of blog NFTs
Architectural Inspiration
"Architecture is really about well-being"
- Zaha Hadid
"The practice of architecture should leverage design
thinking and systems thinking" - Yiselle Santos Rivera
"Architecture is a combination of science and fiction"
- Winy Maas
"Architecture is not about space but about time"
- Vito Acconci
"I continue to explore the dichotomy, and the synergy, of the
opposing forces that makes architecture" - Upali Nanda
"Architecture is the act of making places and spaces
by people, for people" - Tatiana Bilbao
"I don’t like to divide nature and architecture"
- Sou Fujimoto
"Architecture has multiple narratives"
- Sarah Wigglesworth
"All architecture is political"
- Rozana Montiel
"One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time
it is like life starting all over again" - Renzo Piano
"Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance"
- Rem Koolhaas
"The job of the architect today is to create beautiful buildings"
- Philip Johnson
"Architecture is like a mythical fantastic"
- Maya Lin
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space"
- Mies van de Rohe
"Can you make architecture that behaves like a tree?"
- Neri Oxman
"Architecture is an expression of values"
- Norman Foster
"Architecture can be a direct interpretation of culture"
- Pascale Sablan
"The architecture we remember is that which
never consoles or comforts us" - Peter Eisenman
"Architecture is the stage on which we live our lives"
- Mariam Kamara
"Architecture should provoke unexpected emotion"
- Manuelle Gautrand
"Any work of architecture which does not express
serenity is a mistake" - Luis Barrigan
"Architecture is reaching out for the truth"
- Louis Kahn
"Architecture is only as great as the aspirations of its society"
- Lisa Rochon
"Architecture and architectural freedom are
above all a social issue" - Lisa Bo Bardi
"Each new situation requires a new architecture"
- Jean Nouvel
"Architecture is a profession of optimism"
- Johanna Hurme
"I call architecture frozen music"
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Architecture is like a photograph of society"
- Julia Gamolina
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings
speak for themselves" - Julia Morgan
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent,
of forms assembled in the light" - Le Corbusier
"Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life"
- I M Pei
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset"
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
"To make good architecture, you need a double discipline:
you need to live and you need to work" - Gabriela Carillo Valadez
"The mother art is architecture"
- Frank Lloyd Wright
"Architecture should first speak of its time and place,
but yearn for timelessness" - Frank Gehry
"In architecture, you can try to describe and analyse everything, but a lot is just down to your instincts and feelings" - Francine Houben
"I think architecture has a danger of becoming obsolete"
- Elizabeth Diller
"Architecture is about people"
- Diébédo Francis Kéré
"Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only
plan the crossing points" - Denise Scott Brown
"For me, architecture is a social act"
- David Adjaye
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody
history but to articulate it" - Daniel Libeskind
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture"
- Constantin Brancusi
"I see architecture as essentially a human-centric profession"
- Anupama Kundoo
"Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form,
but a form of knowledge" - Bernard Tschumi
"Architecture is characterised by endurance and longevity"
- Catherine Slessor
"The future of architecture lies in it
being ecologically sensitive" - Chitra Vishwanath
"Some of the most extraordinary architecture
comes from a conviction of a pure solution" - Christine Lam
"Architecture aims at eternity"
- Christopher Wren
"Architecture is really about common sense, using issues
to solve as a way to generate ideas" - Anne Fougeron
"I think architecture is an art and it is about experience and it is about supporting people and bringing people together" - Annabelle Selldorf
"God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it"
- Alvar Aalto
"Architecture is geometry"
- Àlvaro Siza
"Architecture itself has a very important role to play
in making people feel valued" - Alison Brooks
"Architecture shapes the spaces where human life happens"
- Alexandra Hagen
Four Seasons
The Glasshouse
The Museum
The Factory
The Monastery
The Diner
The Campus
The School
Parliament
The Cathedral
The Power Station
The Sanctuary
The Sanitorium
The Shrine
The Villa
The Prison
The Chapel
The Commune
Docklands
The Institute
The Kindergarten
The High-rise
The Hut
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