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Quotes by Architect
"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."
7
"Modernism released us from the constraints of everything that had gone before with a euphoric sense of freedom."
7
"It's a project that touched me as an immigrant and as a New Yorker."
7
"A good book written for children can be read by adults."
7
"Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art."
7
"There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private."
7
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
6
"Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition."
6
"Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art."
6
"Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art."
6
"The multiplicity of ideas is what I'm interested in."
6
"Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany."
6
"Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture."
6
"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind."
6
"In this tour around the world I was not interested in contemporary buildings because I had seen contemporary buildings actually until they came out of my ears in a sense."
6
"It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the individuality of the building."
6
"Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual."
6
"Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became."
6
"In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition."
6
"Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic."
6
"We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us."
6
"We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures."
6
"One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off."
6
"The innovative spirit was America's strongest attribute, transforming everything into a brave new world, but there lingered an insecurity about the arts."
6
"What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority."
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