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Quotes by Architect
"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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"And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole."
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"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
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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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"Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less."
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"The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself."
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"The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal."
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"The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue."
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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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"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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"I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves mountains."
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"The house has to serve comfort. The work of art is revolutionary; the house is conservative."
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"Sometimes I have to accept a job I don't really want. Hardly anybody comes up to you with a commission; it's all competitions these days."
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"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course."
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"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people."
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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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"An absolutely different and distinctive character."
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"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture."
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"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."
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"The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor."
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"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."
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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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"Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly."
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"It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work."
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"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
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"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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"Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin."
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"I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity."
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"The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams."
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