Architect Quotes - Page 14

• After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

  Micky Dolenz

  School, Auditions, Facts

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• So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

  Amy Waldman

  Virginia, Names, Design

  "Journalist Amy Waldman". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. November 15, 2011.

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• The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

  Louis Kahn

  World, Firsts, Building

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• Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society.

  Jan Gehl

  Cities, Space, Healthy

  Jan Gehl (2013). “Cities for People”, p.6, Island Press

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• L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters.

  Dylan Walsh

  New York, Office, Important

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• I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

  Bobby Seale

  America, Musician, Add

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• We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.

  Charlie Pierce

  Government, Important, Matter

  "The President Finally Accepts America for Ourselves" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. July 27, 2015.

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• So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

  Vidal Sassoon

  Opportunity, Has Beens

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• I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood or any other material. These... enable us to examine... the work as a whole... and, before continuing any further, to estimate the likely trouble and expense.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Drawing, Woods, Trouble

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• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  Patrick Duffy

  Dad, College, Years

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• I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.

  Frida Giannini

  Wall, Moving, House

  Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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• Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Philosophy, Circles, Want

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• I love what I do and I adore this whole world. I'm able to meet fantastic people. I meet fantastic writers, I meet architects, I meet incredible talent. Fashion is really a world, besides the creation, that I think is super interesting, super inspiring.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Thinking, Interesting

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• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  Rachel Maddow

  Beautiful, Hug, Spy

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

  Renzo Piano

  Artist, Needs, Visionaries

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• Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

  Renzo Piano

  Dream, Wells, Adventurer

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• What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

  Kanye West

  What If, Way, You Re The Best

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• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.

  Sim Van der Ryn

  Book, Journey, Discovery

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• A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Ideas

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “Practicing mental influence”, p.40, William Walker Atkinson

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• Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.

  Jacques Pepin

  Mother, Children, Doctors

  "Chef Jacques Pepin on Food and the Power of Memory" by Sarah Rosenberg and Tom McCarthy, abcnews.go.com. September 15, 2009.

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• If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Unique, Talking

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• You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

  Leon Krier

  Intellectual, Needs, Want

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• Architects design houses. I live in a home.

  Peter Eisenman

  Home, House, Design

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• The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

  Peter Eisenman

  Choices, Variation, Algorithms

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• A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Real, Details, Architecture

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