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Quotes by Architect

"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."

"My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

20

"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."

"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."

James Wyatt, English Architect

Architecture, Country

20

"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."

"All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

20

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

Le Corbusier, Swiss Architect

Men, Light, Order, Sleep

20

"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."

"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."

Richard Rogers, British Architect

Quality, Environment

19

"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."

"Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise."

Adolf Loos, Austrian Architect

Architecture, Man

19

"But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be."

"But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

Temple, Building, Nothing, Spirit

19

"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."

"I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art."

Richard Rogers, British Architect

Architecture, Art, History, Science

18

"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."

"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."

Thom Mayne, American Architect

Architecture, Idea, Value, Walking

18

"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."

"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."

Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect

Architecture, Development, Duty, Mission

17

"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."

"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

17

"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."

"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."

Michael Graves, American Architect

Architecture, Style

17

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."

Luis Barragan, Mexican Architect

Architecture, Art, Being, Emotion

17

"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."

"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Architecture, Detail, English, Light

17

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt."

"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt."

Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect

Doubt, Senses, Skill

17

"Lost are many great commissions by such neglect."

"Lost are many great commissions by such neglect."

James Wyatt, English Architect

16

"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

Architecture, Beginning

16

"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."

"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."

Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect

Architecture, Society, Cities, Importance

16

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."

"Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design."

Stephen Gardiner, British Architect

Design, People, Problems

15

"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."

"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."

Charles Moore, American Architect

Time, People, Civil rights, Country

15

"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."

"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."

John Foster, British Architect

15

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

15

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

"Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Change, Life, Arrogance, Humility

15

"Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like."

"Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like."

Lawrence Halprin, American Architect

15

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."

"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."

Le Corbusier, Swiss Architect

Architecture, Light

15

"It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world."

"It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and simultaneously have connections with the social and political world."

Thom Mayne, American Architect

Art, Public, Reason, World

15

"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."

"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."

Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect

Conservation, Environment, Now, Public

15

"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

"One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

Simplicity, Theories

15

"Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."

"Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."

Addison Mizner, American Architect

Company, Misery

15

"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."

"If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

People, Nothingness

15

"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."

"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."

Richard Rogers, British Architect

End, Public, Right

14

"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."

"It's a fantastic responsibility and a wonderful moment."

Daniel Libeskind, Polish Architect

Responsibility,

14

"The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not."

"The house has to please everyone, contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not."

Adolf Loos, Austrian Architect

Art, Work, Artist

14

"I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down."

"I think we did a pretty good role, linking, being a sounding board really and a driving force, especially from the bottom up. I think that part of this is bottom up as well as top down."

Richard Rogers, British Architect

Being, Driving, Force, Pretty

14

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, American Architect

Architecture, Space, Will

14

"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."

"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."

Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect

14

"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones."

"A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones."

William Kent, English Architect

Feelings, Feeling, Garden, World

14

"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is."

"Well, I didn't want to have the reminder sort of in the sky, so that people would forever look at it. I wanted to have - really to create a city from the bottom up. From that foundation, which held, from the democratic power of what the site really is."

Daniel Libeskind, Polish Architect

Power, People, Sky, Want

14

"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."

"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."

Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect

13

"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

Rem Koolhaas, Dutch Architect

Architecture, People, Nothing

13

"Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies."

"Wind is a floating wave of air, whose undulation continually varies."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

13

"In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver."

"In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver."

Arne Jacobsen, Danish Architect

Quality, Sense, Symbol

13

"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."

"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Disease, Humility

13

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

Frank Lloyd Wright, American Architect

Common sense, Nothing

13

"And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense."

"And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense."

Lawrence Halprin, American Architect

13

"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."

"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society."

Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect

Society, Cities, Consideration, Help

13

"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."

"An easy approach to the walls must be provided against: indeed they should be surrounded by uneven ground, and the roads leading to the gates should be winding and turn to the left from the gates."

Marcus V. Pollio, American Architect

Leadership, Leading

13

"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."

"One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times."

Norton Juster, American Architect

Kids, Problems, Want

13

"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."

"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."

Tadao Ando, Japanese Architect

Architecture, People, Future

13

"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."

"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."

Maya Lin, American Architect

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