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Quotes by Architect
"It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don't need as long as you're able to achieve the same result?"
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"A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it."
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"Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society."
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"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."
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"Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new."
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"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing."
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"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
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"In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them."
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"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us."
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"The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe."
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"Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long."
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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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"In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings."
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"Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site."
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"Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community."
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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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"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."
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"I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture."
Life,
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"We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe."
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"Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks."
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"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
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"They didn't sell, people just weren't used to the idea of living in apartments."
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"I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth."
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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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"The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease."
Men,
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"Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain."
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"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."
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"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground."
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"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
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"And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important."
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