Architect Quotes - Page 32

• Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t trusted.

  David Chipperfield

  Want, Pay, Architecture

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• You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.

  Steven Holl

  Always Trying, World, Limits

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• The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent of humanity.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Self, Humanity, World

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• It is familiar to mainstream academic scholarship. One very prominent political scientist, in his standard text American Politics 20 years ago, observes that "The architects of power in the United States must create a force that can be felt but not seen."

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Political, United States

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Beautiful, Essentials, Three

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

  Philip Johnson

  Hate, Journalist, Demeaning

  Source: business.highbeam.com

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