What Is Architecture?

What Is Architecture?
What Is Architecture?

Video: What Is Architecture?

Video: What Is Architecture?
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Archdaily.com has published a selection of 121 definitions of architecture that have been given to it over the past 100 years by a wide variety of practitioners and theorists. We have selected the most interesting - and witty - of these definitions.

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6. "Architecture is ruthless: it is what it is, it" works "or not, and the difference is clear."

Jacques Herzog lectured at Columbia University (2008).

16. "Architecture is always a dream and a function, an expression of utopia and an instrument of convenience."

Roland Barthes in Semiotics and Urbanism (pdf link) (1967).

18. "Architecture is a real battlefield for the spirit."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in a public speech (link to pdf) (1950).

24. "Architecture is a language: new designs must follow the rules of [his] grammar to avoid dissonance with existing buildings."

Prince Charles in The Architectural Review (2014).

31. "Architecture is characterized by endurance and longevity: a long education, a long professional training, a long working day and a long life."

Publicist Catherine Slessor in The Architectural Review (2013).

34. "Architecture doesn't matter to a large part of the world's population because architects chose not to matter."

Bruce Mau in Architect (2011).

46. "Architecture is the most social of the arts, and society is a harsh critic."

British architect Eric Parry in The Guardian (2003).

75. "Architecture is a history of styles written by the winners."

The critic Herbert Muchamp in The New York Times (1999).

80. “Architecture is an incredible act of narcissism. You make things up, you build them, you look at them. Therefore, I enjoy life and I have no ulcer."

American architect and theorist Stanley Tigerman in the Chicago Tribune (1987).

85. "Architecture is not a profession for the weak in spirit, weak-willed or short-lived."

Critic Martin Filler in The New York Review of Books (2012).

92. "Architecture - 90% of business and 10% of art."

American architect Albert Kahn (1869-1942).

107. "Architecture is a combination of science and fiction."

Winnie Maas in Domus (2011).

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