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Quotes by Architect
"Cities are the greatest creations of humanity."
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"If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see."
Man,
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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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"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."
49
"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."
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"I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation."
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"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."
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"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
Film,
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"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,
48
"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
48
"The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center."
Man,
48
"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes."
48
"Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within."
48
"Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression."
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"It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building."
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"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."
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"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."
48
"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."
48
"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."
47
"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."
47
"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."
47
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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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."
47
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
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"The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it."
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"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."
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"The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line."
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"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
46
"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."
46
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
46
"The straight line leads to the downfall of humanity."
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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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"Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression."
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"Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed."
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"The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture."
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"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space."
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