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Quotes by Architect
"But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour."
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"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."
14
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
14
"An important work of architecture will create polemics."
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"Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts."
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"The tourist transports his own values and demands to his destinations and implants them like an infectious disease, decimating whatever values existed before."
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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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"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all."
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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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"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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"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal."
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"After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration."
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"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
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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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"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."
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"When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded."
Work,
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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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"The Romans used every housing form known today and they have a remarkably modern look."
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"An idea is salvation by imagination."
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"When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed."
Now,
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"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."
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"Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture."
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"So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state."
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"Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England."
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"We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same."
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
14
"I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost."
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"It is thought that the changeover from hunter to farmer was a slow, gradual process."
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"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
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"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
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"Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?"
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"French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community."
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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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"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."
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"People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of."
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"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes."
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