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Quotes by Architect
"Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish."
66
"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."
66
"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
65
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
63
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
62
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
62
"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."
62
"Television is chewing gum for the eyes."
61
"Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."
61
"It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city."
59
"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."
59
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
58
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
58
"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."
58
"But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance."
57
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
57
"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
57
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
Will,
56
"All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space."
56
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
56
"It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us."
56
"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."
55
"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
55
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
55
"Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole."
55
"When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space."
55
"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."
55
"Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved."
54
"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
54
"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
53
"The delusion of entertainment is devoid of meaning. It may amuse us for a bit, but after the initial hit we are left with the dark feeling of desolation."
53
"The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture."
53
"The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect."
52
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
52
"The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling."
52
"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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