Robert A. M. Stern Quotes

• The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Talking, House

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• To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Voice, Language, Individual

  Robert A. M. Stern (1986). “Buildings and projects, 1981-1985”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed, as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle to formulate and sustain a usable past.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Art, Struggle

  Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place: Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Looks, Building, Should

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• My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  House, Community, Historical

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• That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Nfl, Giants, Stories

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