Architect Quotes - Page 8

• We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Engineering, Shapes

  "The Best-laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future". Book by Randal O'Toole, p. 161, 2007.

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• My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Feminine Beauty, Form, Function

  "'Form Follows Feminine': Niemeyer, 90, Is Still Going Strong". Tracy Metz, Architectural Record (p. 35), December 1997.

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• I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.

  James Franco

  Want, Aspiration

  "James Franco: The Method Of 'Milk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 27, 2009.

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• Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.

  Ted Dexter

  Mean, House, Cracks

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• The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

  Helmut Jahn

  Integrity, Ambition, Usa

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• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Bricks

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• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Architecture, Painter

  'Lectures on Architecture and Painting' (1853) 61, addenda

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• A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

  Walter Scott

  Law, History, Historical

  Guy Mannering ch. 37 (1815)

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• Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

  Terry McMillan

  Life, Responsibility, Ifs

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• If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, House, Tasks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

  Michael Ende

  People, House, Design

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• Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Careers, Architecture, Building

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.170

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• I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

  Peter Marino

  Intellectual, Architecture, Abstract

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I know for me as an artist, I think I do myself and my listeners a disservice, if I don't listen to some of the best music out there. If I was an architect or a carpenter, I'm going to want to study the best architects and carpenters and I'm going to appreciate their work, because they're going to inspire me to do well. And I just look at them as great architects and I just appreciate the gift that God gave them.

  LeCrae

  Thinking, Artist, Appreciate

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My mother thought I would have a hard life as a painter. My father thought the highest thing a person could be was an architect. Below that was a painter. So he thought it was much better than being, say, a doctor.

  Alex Katz

  Mother, Father, Doctors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

  Richard Meier

  Responsibility, Order, Architecture

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• We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

  Robin Sharma

  Life, Positive, Time

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.214, Jaico Publishing House

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• No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Behavior, Responsible, Structure

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• In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

  Luis Barragan

  Beauty, Beautiful, Garden

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• We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.

  Appius Claudius Caecus

  Fortune

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• A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

  Cedric Price

  Real, Quality, Improvement

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• If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea. Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that's up to them. I feel I'm making architecture. I believe the building comes into being as soon as it's drawn.

  Lebbeus Woods

  Believe, Expression, Ideas

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• The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards the man himself is the most indispensable means of spiritual development, and as regards his relation to society the measure of his worth.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Spiritual, Mean, Exercise

  Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (2017). “Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art”, p.105, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to interpret them in a language vernacular and time--- is he who shall create poems in stone.

  Louis Sullivan

  Imagination, Vision, Needs

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• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

  Daniel Libeskind

  Mistake, Believe, Ideas

  Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of

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