Architecture And Design Quotes - Page 2

• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

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  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

  Daniel Libeskind

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• A design isn't finished until someone is using it.

  Brenda Laurel

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• Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

  Luis Barragan

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  "Cowboy builder" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2001.

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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• The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

  Honore de Balzac

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

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• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  Frank Stella

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  Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art

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• A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

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• A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.

  Bruno Munari

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

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• The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

  Richard Saul Wurman

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

  John Ruskin

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  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

  Renzo Piano

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• Home is where you hang your architect.

  Clare Boothe Luce

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• Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

  Ambrose Bierce

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  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.17, University of Georgia Press

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

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• Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

  Jan Gehl

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

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  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

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• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

  Kevin McCloud

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• Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

  John Mercer Johnson

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