Architect Quotes - Page 13

• Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  Jean Nouvel

  Architecture, Situation, Architecture And Design

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• There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

  Zaha Hadid

  Degrees, Sticks, Architecture

  "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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• The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

  Peter Eisenman

  Comforting, Architecture, Remember

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• People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

  Tom Kundig

  Badass, Home, Mean

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• Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for one of the best avant-garde dancers in the world.

  Frank Gehry

  Mean, Dancer, Doe

  "'Available Light' Interviews: Frank Gehry, Lucinda Childs, and John Adams". Interview with Julie Lazar, www.kcet.org.

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• We have an architect in the audience who designed one of clubhouses at one of the golf courses. It's a beautiful facility. It immediately was put to use. And Donald Trump wouldn't pay what the man needed to be paid.

  Hillary Clinton

  Beautiful, Golf, Men

  Source: time.com

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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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• There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Men, Artist, Class

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• Form ever follows function.

  Louis Sullivan

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

  'The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered' (1896)

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• No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

  Christiana Figueres

  Design, Energy, Building

  Source: www.slate.com

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• You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is a piece of paper, a pencil and the desire to make architecture.

  Raimund Abraham

  Office, Desire, Needs

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• I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

  James Pearse Connelly

  Mother, Teacher, Art

  "What goes into designing The Biggest Loser's sets, stages, and chill rooms?". Interview with AVC, tv.avclub.com. June 27, 2016.

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• When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

  Richard Meier

  Mother, Art, Believe

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• I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

  Tadao Ando

  Moving, People, Inspire

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• When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

  Walt Whitman

  Ready, Materials

  "Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856".

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• I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Believe, Fall, Thinking

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• Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

  Jill McCorkle

  Garden, Thinking, Choices

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• Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Play, Sick

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• The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Modern Life, Architecture, Modern

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• An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in!

  Luigi Colani

  Building

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

  Boyd Holbrook

  House, Building, Used

  "Boyd Holbrook On Film". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 30, 2014.

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• If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

  M. C. Escher

  Art, Renaissance, Painter

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• Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

  Lauren Conrad

  Artist, Purses

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• My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.

  Mindy Kaling

  Dad, Littles, Stuff

  Interview with Kathryn Borel, www.believermag.com.

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