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Quotes by Architect
"Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design."
8
"I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that."
8
"Nearly all of the advances in structural and aesthetic innovation is coming from abroad."
8
"It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis."
8
"The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions."
8
"I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life."
8
"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."
8
"Human requirements are the inspiration for art."
8
"Transparency is not the same as looking straight through a building: it's not just a physical idea, it's also an intellectual one."
Idea,
8
"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."
7
"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."
7
"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
7
"I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival."
Film,
7
"It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building."
7
"But the building's identity resided in the ornament."
7
"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
7
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
7
"The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth."
7
"The mandala describes balance. This is so whatever the pictorial form."
7
"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."
7
"From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber."
7
"When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated."
7
"Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious."
7
"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."
7
"It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the 1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way."
7
"With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama."
7
"There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea."
7
"Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest."
7
"It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century."
7
"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."
7
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
7
"The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious."
7
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