Architect Quotes - Page 6

• Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 27, 2017

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• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Order, Play, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Ideas, Answers, Architecture

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• The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Demand, Stones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.227, Рипол Классик

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• Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

  Helmut Jahn

  Glasses, Light, Comfort

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• If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Wisdom, Finding Yourself

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• Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Badass, Bad Ass, Important

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Civilization

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

  Eliel Saarinen

  Cities, House, Design

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• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doors

  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Time, Quality, Matter

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• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  Walter Gropius

  Art, Character, Hands

  "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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• It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

  Samuel Mockbee

  Greatness, Compassion

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• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

  Daniel Burnham

  Noble, City Planning, Architecture

  Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Badass, Bad Ass, Order

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• No stream rises higher than its source

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Source, Streams, Higher

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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• A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Nature, Elements, Architecture

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• The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Names, Shapes, Want

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• My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

  Alison Lohman

  Mom, Dad, Years

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

  Thomas Fuller

  Beauty, God, Daughter

  'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'

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• There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Greatness, Design, Architecture

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• My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

  Richard Rogers

  Believe, Passion, People

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• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Artist, England, Architecture

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.423

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