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Quotes by Architect
"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression."
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"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
39
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
39
"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."
39
"There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to its early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization."
39
"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."
39
"I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one."
39
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
39
"I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation."
39
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
38
"Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other."
38
"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
38
"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."
38
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
38
"Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within."
38
"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
38
"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."
38
"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
38
"Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature."
38
"Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic."
38
"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."
38
"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."
38
"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."
38
"Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul."
38
"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall."
38
"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
38
"A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart."
38
"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
38
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
Film,
37
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
37
"But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament."
Now,
37
"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
37
"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."
37
"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes."
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