Architect Quotes - Page 10

• As a child I wanted to become an architect.

  Chris Hughes

  Children, Wanted

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• I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Two

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• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

  Leon Krier

  Architecture, I Can

  Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

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• I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

  Benjamin Zander

  Possibility, Relentless, Humans

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• I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

  David Chipperfield

  Ideas, Luxury, Acting

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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• I didn't take care of the kids. I took care of the interior decoration of the house. I wanted to be an architect, so I curated that aspect of things. In the middle of the chaos, I moved things around and rearranged everything to find my order.

  Giovanna Cau

  Kids, Order, House

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an illogical and unbalanced Being. They declare He is benevolent because they are afraid of Him, but they are forced to admit the truth that His ways are vicious and beyond understanding. They attribute a malignity to Him seldom to be found in any human being. And that is how they get human beings to worship Him. For our miserable species would never lavish worship on a just and benevolent God from whom they had nothing to fear.

  Anatole France

  Understanding, Way, Philosopher

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• A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Cells, Imagination

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building.

  Frank Gehry

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  "The Art Teacher's Book of Lists". Book by Helen D. Hume, December 31, 1997.

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• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  Plutarch

  Wickedness, Misery, Shame

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• I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

  Carl Rogers

  Self, Individuality, Accepting

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• Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.

  David Byrne

  Dream, Couple, Order

  "Fictional character: Narrator". Musical, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• But then architects don't build their own houses.

  Damien Hirst

  House, Architecture

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• The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

  Che Guevara

  Destiny, Men, Tools

  "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution". "Verde Olivo" Magazine, www.marxists.org. October 8, 1960.

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• Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

  Alain de Botton

  Space, Shy, Manipulation

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• The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Drawing, Architecture

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• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  Alvar Aalto

  Giving, Tasks, Architecture

  "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

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• Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

  George Ade

  Men, Construction, Neighbor

  "Hand-made Fables".

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• The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Jobs, Age, Architecture

  Nikki Giovanni (1994). “Racism 101”, William Morrow & Co

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• People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same.

  Frank Gehry

  Artist, Thinking, People

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• These days, information is a commodity being sold. And designers-including the newly defined subset of information designers and information architects-have a responsible role to play. We are interpreters, not merely translators, between sender and receiver. What we say and how we say it makes a difference. If we want to speak to people, we need to know their language. In order to design for understanding, we need to understand design.

  Erik Spiekermann

  Order, Play, Differences

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• Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.

  Le Corbusier

  Simple, Hands, Needs

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• The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.

  Michael Graves

  Design, Roles, Target

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• I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me.

  Michael Graves

  Writing, Design, Magic

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• Before receiving your instruction, I must tell you what happened to me one day. I had just had a closet built at the end of my garden. I heard a mole arguing with a cockchafer; 'Here's a fine structure,' said the mole, 'it must have been a very powerful mole who did this work.' 'You're joking,' said the cockchafer; 'it's a cockchafer full of genius who is the architect of this building.' From that moment I resolved never to argue.

  Voltaire

  Powerful, Garden, Atheism

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