Architect Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

  Bernard Arnault

  Jobs, Engineering, Creative

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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• 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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• 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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• You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hands, World, Members

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Honesty, Lying, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Architecture, Building, Should

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• The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky.

  Ken Adam

  Foundation, Max, Berlin

  "The grand illusionist" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 1999.

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• 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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• The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Radiance, World, Satisfaction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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