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Quotes by Architect
"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."
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"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."
43
"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
42
"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings."
42
"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
42
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
42
"And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but as really the substance of the American Dream."
42
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
42
"I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well."
41
"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
41
"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart."
41
"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."
41
"This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world."
41
"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
41
"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
41
"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
41
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
Man,
40
"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
40
"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe."
40
"The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
40
"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
40
"If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger."
40
"There is little doubt that we are in the midst of a revolution of a much more profound and fundamental nature than the social and political revolutions of the last half century."
40
"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."
40
"The work of art is brought into the world without there being a need for it. The house satisfies a requirement. The work of art is responsible to none; the house is responsible to everyone. The work of art wants to draw people out of their state of comfort."
40
"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."
40
"Bankers cannot afford to be concerned with only the economic aspects of projects. There may be serious implications on the natural environment, the urban environment, on human culture."
40
"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."
39
"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
39
"Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties."
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