Architect Quotes - Page 7

• In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

  Helmut Jahn

  Artist, Winning, Thinking

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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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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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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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• The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Hands, Design

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

  Kenzo Tange

  Special, Development, Urban

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• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

  Parker Stevenson

  Jewels, House, Schindler

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• All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sunset, Nocturnal, Architecture

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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 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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• 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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• I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

  Alexander Jackson Davis

  Native American, Architecture, Building

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• Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hands, Architecture, Intention

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

  Parker Stevenson

  New York, Wall, School

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• My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

  Richard Ernst

  Father, Teaching, School

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.

  Jake Roberts

  Dream, Father, School

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

  Tadao Ando

  Believe, People, Littles

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Foundation

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Business, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• The space within becomes the reality of the building.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Space, Interesting

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• If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, Architecture, Building

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Reality

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• Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

  Geoffrey Jellicoe

  Who We Are, Architecture, Remember

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• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Steel

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