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Quotes by Architect
"I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination."
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"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."
38
"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
38
"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."
38
"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."
38
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
38
"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."
37
"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."
37
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
37
"To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears."
37
"The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning."
36
"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."
36
"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
36
"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
36
"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."
36
"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."
36
"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."
36
"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."
36
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
36
"I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings."
Work,
36
"The permanent power brokers of this city are the columnists."
36
"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
35
"The plastic on your sandwich really doesn't have to be made to last 50 years."
35
"Well, I've always just - I've never really gone out looking for work. I always waited for it to sort of hit me on the head."
Work,
35
"It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way."
35
"The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment."
35
"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.""
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