Architecture Quotes

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  Whatever good things we build end up building us.

  Jim Rohn

  Self Esteem, Greatness, Goal

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 16, 2017

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• Good architecture lets nature in.

  Mario Pei

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• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, Talking

  "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.

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• Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

  Julia Morgan

  Art, Talking, Speak

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Civilization

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

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• 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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• Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

  Louis Sullivan

  Single, Unique, People

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• Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Gothic Architecture

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Games, Gamer

  Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”

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• Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.

  Barbara Kruger

  Moving, First Love, Night

  Art in America, Volume 85, Nr. 10-12, 1997.

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  Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

  Engineering, Design, Ends

  Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.

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• Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

  Arthur Erickson

  Badass, Moving, Heart

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

  Alvar Aalto

  Mean, Immature, Doe

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• This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

  Malcolm Miller

  Book, Glasses, Sculpture

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

  John Ruskin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, People

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  Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

  Coco Chanel

  Fashion, Matter, Proportion

  Quoted in Marcel Haedrich Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1972), ch.1 (translated by Charles Lam Markmann).

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• Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Badass, Bad Ass, Sculpture

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• I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

  Emilio Ambasz

  Answers, Next, Building

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• No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

  John Ruskin

  Simple, Haughty, Architect

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.195, University of Virginia Press

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Art, Badass

  New York Times 27 Dec. 1964, p. 9E

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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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