Architect Quotes

• When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

  Colleen Barrett

  Work, Memorable, Needs

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• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Future

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

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Games, Architecture

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

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• All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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  Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

  Engineering, Design, Architecture

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

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• Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

  William S. Burroughs

  Change, Art, Real

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Acceptance

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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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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• He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

  Harold Wilson

  Change, Life Changing, Teaching

  Speech to the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, quoted in "The New York Times", (p. 12), January 24, 1967.

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

  Richard Rogers

  Principles, Architecture, Form

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  Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Dance

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• Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Spiritual, Design, Misunderstood

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• I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

  Philip Johnson

  Funny, Beach, Hate

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• Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Space

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice

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

  Julia Morgan

  Art, Talking, Architecture

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

  Zaha Hadid

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Significant Things, Luxury, Architecture

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• As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

  Norman Foster

  Badass, Past, Bad Ass

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• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Fighting, Bad Ass

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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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• The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Hurt

  Mark Hertzberg, Frank Lloyd Wright (2004). “Wright in Racine: The Architect's Vision for One American City”, p.11, Pomegranate

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• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Meaningful, Badass, Bad Ass

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