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Quotes by Architect
"When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it."
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"True as this is, it is also true that for one who won through there were many who gained nothing, and it was, and is, the sheer weight of numbers of those who failed of this that has made their influence on the modern life as pervasive and controlling as it is."
10
"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."
10
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
Man,
10
"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
10
"Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture."
10
"I grow dizzy when I recall that the number of manufactured tanks seems to have been more important to me than the vanished victims of racism."
10
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
10
"You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you."
Will,
10
"We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't."
Wood,
10
"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."
10
"All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we knew of. So the soldiers would have been unable to protect themselves against this gas in any way."
10
"The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth."
10
"People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it."
10
"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning and I will tell you how it happened."
10
"Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it."
10
"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
10
"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."
10
"All sensible Army people turned gas warfare down as being utterly insane since, in view of your superiority in the air, it would not be long before it would bring the most terrible catastrophe upon German cities, which were completely unprotected."
10
"It is certain that concentration camps had a bad reputation with us."
10
"The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens."
10
"It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world."
10
"I am moreover inclined to be concise when I reflect on the constant occupation of the citizens in public and private affairs, so that in their few leisure moments they may read and understand as much as possible."
10
"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
10
"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
9
"The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way."
9
"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
9
"I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting."
9
"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."
9
"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
9
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