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Quotes by Architect
"Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be creative itself."
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"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
35
"Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors."
34
"I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
34
"Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate."
33
"That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another."
33
"Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life."
33
"If a building becomes architecture, then it is art."
32
"If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting."
32
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
30
"In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside."
29
"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
29
"On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out."
29
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
26
"Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns."
25
"No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly."
25
"We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment."
23
"The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding."
21
"I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture."
21
"There is an increasing awareness of the interrelatedness of things. We are becoming less prone to accept an immediate solution without questioning its larger implications."
19
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
18
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
16
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
15
"If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does."
15
"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."
15
"Architecture begins where engineering ends."
14
"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
13
"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
13
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
12
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
12
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
12
"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."
12
"The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling."
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