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Quotes by Architect
"I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention."
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"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."
20
"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."
20
"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
20
"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."
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"I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part of my thinking on this matter."
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"Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."
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"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
20
"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
19
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
19
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
19
"If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality."
19
"A good engineer thinks in reverse and asks himself about the stylistic consequences of the components and systems he proposes."
19
"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."
19
"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
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"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
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"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."
19
"Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change."
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"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
Will,
19
"The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds."
19
"I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building."
19
"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."
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"Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two."
19
"I have no requirements for a style of architecture."
19
"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."
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"Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times."
19
"Perhaps, to the uninformed, it may appear unaccountable that a man should be able to retain in his memory such a variety of learning; but the close alliance with each other, of the different branches of science, will explain the difficulty."
18
"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."
18
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
Man,
18
"When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan."
18
"Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero."
18
"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."
18
"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."
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"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic."
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