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Quotes by Architect
"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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"Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
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"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."
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"Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began."
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"German and English firms operate internationally, while French firms do not. The only place where they all have work is in China. Anybody can sell himself in China!"
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"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
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"The house itself is of minor importance. Its relation to the community is the thing that really counts."
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"Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art."
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"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."
Life,
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"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."
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"The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse."
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"I have been criticized rather strenuously by painters and sculptors for not incorporating their work in our buildings."
Work,
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"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."
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"Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building."
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"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."
3
"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances."
3
"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression."
3
"Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America."
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"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."
3
"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."
3
"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."
3
"With production alone as the goal, industry in North America was dominated by the assembly line, standardization for mass consumption."
2
"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."
2
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward."
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"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."
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"You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film."
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