Architect Quotes - Page 24

• In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.

  Zaha Hadid

  War, Men, Iran

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• Brands must become architects of community.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Community, Brands

  Twitter post from Dec 16, 2015

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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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• I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Kids, Golf, Games

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• The term 'renaissance man' is always bandied about. I don't think that applies to me. You think about Leonardo da Vinci, and he was a painter and a physicist and an architect, and that is a true renaissance man.

  Moby

  Men, Thinking, Renaissance

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• Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

  Julie Burchill

  Cities, Half, Barcelona

  "Patriotism is for reactionaries ... nationalism is the way forward". www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, People, Schedules

  Interview with Alex Hoyt, www.theatlantic.com. May 2011.

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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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• Has the painter not always gone to an art school, or at least to an established master, for instruction? And the composer, the sculptor, the architect? Then why not the writer? Good poets, like good hybrid corn, are both born and made.

  Paul Engle

  Art, School, Gone

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• Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Loyalty, Meaningful, Community

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

  Richard Neutra

  Individuality, Razors

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• I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.

  Eli Broad

  Strong, Together, Clients

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• Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

  Zaha Hadid

  Female, Half, Students

  "Zaha Hadid: 'Being an Arab and a woman is a double-edged sword'". Interview with Huma Qureshi, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2012.

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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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• 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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• When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

  Zaha Hadid

  Crazy, Mean, Sleep

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• Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.

  Graydon Carter

  War, Decision, Vietnam

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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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• 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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• 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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• Character is the architect of the being.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Kindness, Character, Be Kind

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