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Quotes by Architect
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."
7
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
7
"When I thought about the calibre of people in the room I realized we might just have a credible candidate for Mayor who will would finally enforce the laws of the city. It was almost too good to be true."
7
"I don't believe in morality in architecture."
6
"In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry."
6
"We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things."
6
"The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse."
6
"The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers."
5
"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
5
"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
5
"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it."
5
"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
5
"In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition."
5
"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."
Life,
5
"No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems."
4
"After 1980, you never heard reference to space again. Surface, the most convincing evidence of the descent into materialism, became the focus of design. Space disappeared."
4
"The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts."
4
"The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art."
4
"Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical."
4
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
3
"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."
3
"May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good."
3
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