Architect Quotes - Page 12

• I started off in architecture, and I just couldn't fit into the vibe there. I just felt more at home in the Art Department, so I just ended up there. But I would be an architect if it didn't require so much engineering.

  Larkin Grimm

  Art, Home, Engineering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing... and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

  Jonathan Meades

  Believe, Thinking, Creating

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?'

  Jonathan Meades

  Years, People, Mind

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

  Max Walker

  Football, Dad, School

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• As architects we have a responsibility
  to society

  Richard Rogers

  Responsibility

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• Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Play, Should

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Misery, Shame

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• The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Challenges, Today, Generations

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Architects need to restore and protect.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Needs, Protect

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

  Leon Krier

  Architecture, I Can

  Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

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• I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Two

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• People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• As a child I wanted to become an architect.

  Chris Hughes

  Children, Wanted

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• As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.

  Michael Arad

  Glasses, Cities, Imagining The Future

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• Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world.

  John Burroughs

  New York, War, Mean

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• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  Alvar Aalto

  Giving, Tasks, Architecture

  "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

  George Ade

  Men, Construction, Neighbor

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jobs, Age, Architecture

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

  Jessie Burton

  Fortune

  Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Architecture, Melancholy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press

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• There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Reading, Technology, Library

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• Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Destiny, Men, Earth

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• An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

  Shigeru Ban

  Careers, People, Doe

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• I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Individuality, Accepting

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• Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.

  David Byrne

  Dream, Couple, Order

  "Fictional character: Narrator". Musical, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1986.

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