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Quotes by Architect
"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe."
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"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
10
"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."
10
"With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying."
10
"In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building."
10
"A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous."
10
"You know, the environment is fragmenting, and the environment is, in many places, absolutely hideous!"
10
"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."
Men,
10
"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
10
"In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings."
10
"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."
10
"Ancient Rome was as confident of the immutability of its world and the continual expansion and improvement of the human lot as we are today."
10
"Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe."
10
"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."
10
"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,
10
"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."
10
"The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world."
10
"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."
10
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
10
"But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like."
10
"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."
10
"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."
10
"To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears."
10
"The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams."
10
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
10
"I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings."
Work,
10
"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
10
"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."
10
"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition."
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