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Quotes by Architect
"A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive."
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"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
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"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
Idea,
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"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings."
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"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
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"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
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"Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic."
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"You'd never think of taking a cab if you had to walk a mile down Chicago's Michigan Avenue. But in a bad city you take a cab just to go around the corner."
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"People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish."
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"In setting out the walls of a city the choice of a healthy situation is of the first importance: it should be on high ground, neither subject to fogs nor rains; its aspects should be neither violently hot nor intensely cold, but temperate in both respects."
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"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
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"I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning."
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"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."
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"The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again."
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"Dimension regulated the general scale of the work, so that the parts may all tell and be effective."
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"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."
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"Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill."
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"And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting."
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"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."
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"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."
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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
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"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."
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"I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future."
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"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
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"When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything."
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"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
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"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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"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature."
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"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
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"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."
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