Architect Quotes - Page 14

• America does not hold to the colonial tradition. America came, liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban and al-Qaida, came to an arrangement with Hamid Karzai, wanted to organize elections as soon as possible and then withdraw. The Bush administration thought that once there is a democracy, everything else will fall into place. If today you speak to the architects of the 2001 Afghanistan Conference in Bonn, they will tell you that instead of being fixated on elections, we should have built a State in Afghanistan with an army and a police force first.

  Ahmed Rashid

  Fall, Army, Police

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mistake, Doctors, Ivy

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• I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect them like other people collect teapots. I don't know why I love them so much. I'm just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

  Frances Mayes

  Ideas, People, House

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• For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Thinking, Architecture, Exciting

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a body of work, generated by the attitudes he gradually accumulates towards the agendas he deals with

  Charles Correa

  Attitude, Years, Agendas

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• I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas. Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.

  David Chipperfield

  Real, Museums, Media

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

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• He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be laid with trouble to the architect and danger to the building.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  May, Able, Firsts

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.24, FastPencil Inc

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• Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.

  Cesar Pelli

  Believe, Opportunity, Play

  César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr

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• Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Country, Home, Ideas

  "Founder of Small Works Cameron Sinclair Afghanistan, Syria, and the Architecture of Empowerment". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts.

  John F. Kennedy

  White, Long, Appreciate

  Address Before the Irish Parliament, delivered 28 June 1963, Dublin, Ireland

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• I pray to the architect that designed me. I'm grateful.

  John Feldmann

  Grateful, Praying, I Pray

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• There is a difficult transition in management from being the knowledgeable expert and the problem solver to becoming a process architect. The importance of good process in organizations is undervalued and people seldom get credited for putting good processes in place. It makes sense therefore that C-level executives don't want to delegate expertise and problem solving tasks which help them to "shine" and attract widespread recognition.

  Yves Doz

  People, Shining, Management

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Fashion, Ignorance, Order

  "On the Ladies' Passion for Levelling All Distinction of Dress". Essay by Oliver Goldsmith,

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• Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.

  Rafael Vinoly

  Fashion, Philosophy, Thinking

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• In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all the stuff that's repeated, from spatial products to whole cities, which looks so daunting to architects, might be especially empowering. At this moment, it might be harder to make a meaningful object form alone, but easier to make an active form that can piggyback on those multipliers to recondition spaces in a politically significant way.

  Keller Easterling

  Meaningful, Empowering, Kind

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Musicians are the architects of heaven.

  Bobby McFerrin

  Heaven, Musician

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• I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.

  LeBron James

  Funny, Nba, Games

  "LeBron: I'll be among greatest". www.espn.com.au. February 12, 2014.

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• My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Brother, Son, Wife

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. 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, and in our case, the realities we create can be as real as concrete. These kinds of ideas, of wild imagination, go into the question of how you make a world.

  Jimenez Lai

  Real, Thinking, Imagination

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Mean, Design, Looks

  "Riverwalk architect sees revival in city". Interview with Ally Marotti, digitaledition.chicagotribune.com.

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• Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights Declaration, and of course the United Nations is based here in New York City. But, unfortunately, especially in the last decade, the U.S. really has been turning its back on international agreements and the set of agencies and procedures that they create as a means for governing the world.

  John Burroughs

  New York, War, Mean

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• [My father] was always saying I'd end up like my grandfather. Okay. My grandfather was an architect, I'm an architect. It's true, certain characteristics are similar.

  Paul Laffoley

  Father, Characteristics, Ends

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• If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Country, Soul, World

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.65, Library of America

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• The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

  Martin Filler

  Technology, Men, Architecture

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• Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts.

  Walter Gropius

  Art, Creativity, Training

  "Paul Klee, 1879-1940: Poet of Colours, Masters of Lines". Book by Paul Klee and Susanna Partsch, p. 47, 2000.

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