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Quotes by Architect
"I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves."
56
"The largest and most influential houses chiefly demonstrate the aloofness of the French approach."
56
"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."
56
"Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over."
56
"And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters."
55
"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."
55
"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."
55
"Pictures can and do make a difference. Strong images of historical events do have an impact on society. They can help with change."
55
"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."
55
"If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it."
55
"Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights."
55
"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."
55
"Our engineering departments build freeways which destroy a city or a landscape, in the process."
54
"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."
54
"Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times."
54
"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,
54
"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."
54
"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion."
54
"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."
54
"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."
54
"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved."
53
"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."
53
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
53
"Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training."
53
"The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look."
53
"One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level."
53
"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
53
"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
53
"The World Trade Center is a living symbol of man's dedication to world peace... a representation of man's belief in humanity, his need for individual dignity, his beliefs in the cooperation of men, and, through cooperation, his ability to find greatness."
52
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
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