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Quotes by Architect
"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."
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"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."
31
"So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent."
31
"It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution."
31
"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city."
31
"When a project has an ample budget, I am interested now in using bigger units of materials."
31
"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
31
"And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important."
31
"I would rather not tell you here things which every German has at heart."
31
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
31
"I feel this is very important for us to have serene buildings because our civilization is chaotic as it is, you see; our whole machine age has brought about a chaos that has to be somehow counterbalanced, I think."
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"There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing."
30
"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."
30
"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
30
"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course."
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"We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated."
30
"My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words.""
30
"The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong."
30
"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
30
"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."
30
"The essentially unchangeable established order of things slowly disappeared and was forgotten for a while completely."
30
"I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own."
30
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
30
"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."
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