Architect Quotes - Page 14

• Character is the architect of the being.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Kindness, Character, Be Kind

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• The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Running, Worst Enemy, Skills

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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• Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

  Martin Filler

  Design, Decision, Prejudice

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• Buildings should be good neighbours.

  Paul Thiry

  Building, Should, Be Good

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• Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

  Dieter Rams

  Ninja, Obvious

  François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”

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• Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

  Kenzo Tange

  Long, Design, Arbitrary

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• There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

  Martin Filler

  Challenges, Littles, Building

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• A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Perception, Narrative

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• Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Moving, Support

  Martin Filler (2007). “Makers of Modern Architecture”, New York Review of Books

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• Women are the architects of society

  Cher

  Women

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• You are the architect of your own loneliness.

  Adam Shankman

  Loneliness, Originals

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• Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

  Bill Rancic

  Team, Chicago, Towers

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• Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

  Shigeru Ban

  People, House, Architecture

  "Paper Palaces" by Dana Goodyear, www.newyorker.com. August 11, 2014.

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• To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.

  Richard Meier

  Dream, Growing Up, Team

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• It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

  Jean Nouvel

  Design, Important, Different

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• I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

  Peter Zumthor

  Passionate

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• It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

  Zaha Hadid

  Today, Architecture, Building

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• An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Foundation, Bricks

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light.  Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

  Louis Kahn

  Light, Quality, Different

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• I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.

  Louis Kahn

  Past, Done, Demand

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• Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

  Walter Gropius

  Jobs, Needs, Architecture

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• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a relationship to society and form itself that is unsatisfactory and incomplete. This inadequate set of terms to describe an active life reveals only partially the still undefined nature of the designer.

  Alvin Lustig

  Life, Relationship, Nature

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• Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

  Barbra Streisand

  Design, Special, Furniture

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