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Quotes by Architect
"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."
6
"The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
6
"In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building."
6
"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
6
"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."
Men,
6
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
6
"No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built."
6
"As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action."
6
"Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built."
6
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
6
"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."
6
"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."
6
"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
6
"When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded."
Work,
6
"We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated."
6
"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."
6
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
6
"I want to do very useful buildings and I would like to find a method of producing these buildings through our technology because I think that this is the only way that we will gain wonderful environment easily in the future."
6
"We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city."
Work,
6
"If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed."
6
"I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one."
6
"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort."
6
"You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us."
6
"To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears."
6
"Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference."
6
"The war, as I felt it and a lot of my compatriots felt it, was a creative act."
6
"The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists."
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