Architect Quotes - Page 17

• 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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• Architects cannot teach nature anything.

  Mark Twain

  Architecture, Teach, Lecturer

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.319, Courier Corporation

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• When a man is not satisfied with a house where he
  lives, he becomes an architect

  Renzo Piano

  Men, House, Satisfied

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• I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love Is, People, Want

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• I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance.

  Michael Jackson

  Art, Movie Love, Guy

  FaceBook post by Michael Jackson from Apr 11, 2013

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• We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at, nor to live in or around, to a new century where there's a real desire for housing that's affordable, flexible, and places community at the heart of its thinking. For architects and the public it's an enticing prospect.

  Will Gompertz

  Real, Moving, Heart

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• Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

  Joseph Pilates

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• When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.

  Richard Meier

  Thinking, Space, Light

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• Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

  Samuel

  Teacher, Leader, Pursuit

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• Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

  Cedric Price

  Dull, Matter, Lost

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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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• 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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• I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place. Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an appropriate answer.

  Cesar Pelli

  Believe, Responsibility, Practice

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• Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

  Richard Neutra

  Individuality, Razors

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• I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and my mother was a teacher of art history, so it was sort of intellectual, and maybe a bit much for me when I was a child.

  Frida Giannini

  Mother, Teacher, Art

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

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• A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Beautiful, Dream, Optimistic

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• An architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Optimistic, Artist, Tangible

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