Architect Quotes - Page 26

• Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

  Kenzo Tange

  Long, Design, Arbitrary

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• Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

  Dieter Rams

  Ninja, Obvious

  François Burkhardt, Inez Franksen, Dieter Rams (1981). “Design: Dieter Rams &”

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• Buildings should be good neighbours.

  Paul Thiry

  Building, Should, Be Good

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• The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.

  Uell Stanley Andersen

  Running, Worst Enemy, Skills

  Uell Stanley Andersen (1954). “The key to power and personal peace”

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• Character is the architect of the being.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Kindness, Character, Be Kind

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• Women are the architects of society

  Cher

  Women

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• You are the architect of your own loneliness.

  Adam Shankman

  Loneliness, Originals

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• Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.

  Bill Rancic

  Team, Chicago, Towers

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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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• In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Fall, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

  I Have a Dream, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.

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• The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a heightened manifestation of the craftsman. ... Let us form ... a new guild of craftsmen without the class divisions that set out to raise an arrogant barrier between craftsmen and artists! ... Let us together create the new building of the future which will be all in one: architecture and sculpture and painting.

  Walter Gropius

  Artist, Class, Together

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• Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

  Walter Gropius

  Jobs, Needs, Architecture

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• I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.

  Louis Kahn

  Past, Done, Demand

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• Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light.  Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied with static light and forget the endlessly changing qualities of natural light, in which a room is a different room every second of the day.

  Louis Kahn

  Light, Quality, Different

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• An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Foundation, Bricks

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

  Zaha Hadid

  Today, Architecture, Building

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• I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

  Peter Zumthor

  Passionate

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• Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.

  Larry McVoy

  Differences, Simplicity, Design

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• Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was founded in 1968 by Mirra Richard (since her definitive settling in India called '[The] Mother') and designed by architect Roger Anger. Auroville is meant to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony, above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity.

  Mirra Alfassa

  Mother, Country, Men

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• Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle order, though some of our earlier architects preferred the Ironic. Recent additions to the White House in Washington are Theo-Doric, the ecclesiastic order of the Dorians. They are exceedingly fine and cost one hundred dollars a brick.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Order, White, House

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much he has assigned us to do we do not know, but if we fail in our assignment it is pretty certain that a part of the job will be left undone.

  Robert Andrews Millikan

  Jobs, Philosophy, Responsibility

  "The autobiography of Robert A. Millikan".

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• And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from sun. The Earth will become a Holy Land which will be visited by pilgrims from all the quarters of the Universe. Finally, men will master the forces of Nature; they will become themselves architects of systems, manufacturers of worlds.

  William Winwood Reade

  Future, Men, Land

  William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.514

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• An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this is the one real, vital principle that survives through all places and all times.

  Louis Sullivan

  Real, Intuition, Principles

  Louis Sullivan, Robert Twombly (1988). “The Public Papers”, p.100, University of Chicago Press

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• Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

  Bill Watterson

  Form, Function, Can Do

  Source: mentalfloss.com

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• During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.

  Hugh Hardy

  War, Lincoln Center, Brave

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