Architect Quotes - Page 15

• If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

  Philip Johnson

  Arrogant, Modest, Knows

  "Philip Johnson: What I've Learned". Interview with John H. Richardson, www.esquire.com. February 1999.

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• I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

  Philip Johnson

  Style, Would Be, Boring

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• I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to do their planning on the fly in a fashion similar to an architect sketching.

  John Katzman

  Fashion, Design Process, Sketching

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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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• Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Children, Hero, Past

  Narendra Modi’s banquet speech during his visit to Kenya, www.pmindia.gov.in. July 11, 2016.

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• It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.

  John Burroughs

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

  Maya Lin

  Artist, Architecture, Function

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• The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

  Norman Cousins

  Medicine, Needs, Pharmacy

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• You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

  Le Corbusier

  Knows

  "Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited". Book by Philippe Boudon, trans. Gerald Onn, 1969.

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• If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

  Peter Zumthor

  Artist, Together, Know How

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• You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

  Renzo Piano

  Criticism, Architecture, Harmony

  "The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator". Interview With Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2012.

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• If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.

  Michael Atiyah

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self. Too much precision ("stringency") is simply misplaced, a formalism inappropriate to the kind of matter we have to deal with (and to be).

  Kenny Smith

  Philosophy, Self, Taste

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• When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

  David Richo

  Fear, Identity, Connections

  David Richo (2014). “When Love Meets Fear: How to Become Defense-less and Resource-full”, p.39, Paulist Press

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• Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

  Quinlan Terry

  Years, Numbers, Principles

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• As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.

  Magnus Larsson

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• [There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• What we can do as landscape architects is look at how we can use materials to the best
  advantage, and our resources like water. Water is so precious that we can't waste it, we have to
  use it in small amounts, and we have to use it effectively.

  Pamela Palmer

  Water, Looks, Use

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• The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

  Brian Webb

  Fall, Differences, People

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• Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

  Guru Nanak

  Karma, Husband, Doe

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• If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her.  If then, she was still determined, I would give her my blessing – she could be that exceptional one.

  Pietro Belluschi

  Blessing, Giving, Trying

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