Architect Quotes - Page 11

• I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

  Max Walker

  Football, Dad, School

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

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• Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

  Tom Watson

  Golf, Play, Should

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• The number of African Americans in my profession is woefully small; about two percent of architects in the country are black. I'd like to see more diversity. That's why whenever I'm asked to speak at middle and high schools I always say yes.

  Philip Freelon

  Country, School, Two

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.

  Raimund Abraham

  Reality, Ideas, Drawing

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• Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.

  Peter Zumthor

  Intelligent, People, Together

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• An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people.

  Shigeru Ban

  Careers, People, Doe

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• Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

  Moshe Safdie

  Knows

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• There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading - because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity - that is a very exciting area in architecture.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Reading, Technology, Library

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• As architects we have a responsibility
  to society

  Richard Rogers

  Responsibility

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• The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Giving, Architecture, Melancholy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1973). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848”, p.382, Harvard University Press

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• Every woman is the architect of her own fortune.

  Jessie Burton

  Fortune

  Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heaven, Mind, Site

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.632, Delphi Classics

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• The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Heart, Fate

  Elective Affinities bk. 2, ch. 3 (1808)

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• I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

  Ron Ben-Israel

  Birthday, Cake, Events

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• I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

  Jimenez Lai

  Communication, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Smart, Mean

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• Ultimately I'll probably end up going out with an actress again. But an architect would be cool. They need to do something creative. I'm attracted to talent. But it would maybe be healthier if it wasn't in the industry.

  Douglas Booth

  Creative, Would Be, Needs

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

  Nikolai Gogol

  Soul, Might, Wreckage

  Nikolai Gogol (2011). “Dead Souls: A Novel”, p.390, Vintage

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• Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see.

  Jillian Hervey

  Smell, Dancing, Lenses

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints.

  Jimenez Lai

  Thinking, Order, Bylaws

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I started off in architecture, and I just couldn't fit into the vibe there. I just felt more at home in the Art Department, so I just ended up there. But I would be an architect if it didn't require so much engineering.

  Larkin Grimm

  Art, Home, Engineering

  Source: therumpus.net

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• One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.

  Jimenez Lai

  World, Reason Why, Philosopher

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even better place by making another thing which will be even bigger than the last thing... and it is part of the pathology of being an architect to believe thus, and they do believe it, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

  Jonathan Meades

  Believe, Thinking, Creating

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?'

  Jonathan Meades

  Years, People, Mind

  Source: thequietus.com

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