Architect Quotes - Page 18

• Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

  Heber J. Grant

  Men, Feels, Propose

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• The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps on growing.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Technology, Growing, Computer

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest men, and that it is impossible to make it better than it is, not only as a whole and in general but also for ourselves in particular, if we are attached, as we ought to be, to the Author of all, not only as to the architect and efficient cause of our being, but as to our master and to the final cause, which ought to be the whole aim of our will, and which can alone make our happiness.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Men, Wisest Man, Order

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• I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose.

  Emily Lloyd

  Believe, Fighting, Destiny

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

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• As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.

  Robert Venturi

  Writing, Artist, Past

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• Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes I feel hesitant in the midst of other architects. I can't help thinking that they know more than I do, but I also feel that maybe I can go in directions they learned you're not supposed to go in.

  Vito Acconci

  Thinking, Discipline, Attention

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Creativity, Directors, Building

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Beautiful, Looks, Our Time

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who didn't build St Paul's. I didn't quite build St Paul's, but I stood on more mountaintops than possibly I deserved.

  Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

  Men, Miserable, Enormous

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• I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I might have wound up like my father, who never did find that which he could devote his life to. He sort of drifted from job to job. He was a traveling salesman, he was a bookkeeper, he was an office manager, he was here, there, there. And however enthusiastic he was at the beginning, his job would bore him. If I hadn't had the writing, I think I might have replicated what he was doing, which would not have been good.

  Donald E. Westlake

  Father, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2006.

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• My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice, let him orderthe architect to speak of buildings not according to himself but according to his neighbor; according to another man's knowledge, not according to his own.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Art, Knowledge

  Michel de Montaigne (1979). “Essays”

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• Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II thing, this segmentation of the arts, so lame. It's the laming of the arts.

  Peter Marino

  Art, War, Greek

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The same architect who designed the Seattle fair's futuristic Science Center, with its lacy Gothic arches and spires, Minoru Yamasaki, was hired to design the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Seattle had promised fairgoers a glimpse of the world that would exist in 2001. That year eventually unfolded as something less than the dream we'd imagined.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Dream, Years, Design

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• The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I wanted to try to imagine a new kind of structure in architecture. In general, architects follow fashions. They're neoclassical, postmodern.

  Shigeru Ban

  Fashion, Personality, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents want you to go to the next level of whatever, and I decided that I ought to be an architect. I can't tell you why. And I tried, and I had no aptitude for it.

  Bruce Molsky

  Brother, Dad, Parent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Editing, Together, Scripts

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• There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Unique, Average, Two

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially architect myself?

  Noel Tichy

  Teaching, Thinking, Leader

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.

  Abbas Kiarostami

  Photography, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2005.

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• In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to do your computer drawings. They just knock off each other. There's nothing creative in any of them.

  Barbara Hulanicki

  Drawing, Creative, Miami

  "Biba Lives". Interview with Glenn O'Brien, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 26, 2009.

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• There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

  Mirabel Osler

  Moving, Garden, Stones

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.84, A&C Black

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• I love what I do and I adore this whole world. I'm able to meet fantastic people. I meet fantastic writers, I meet architects, I meet incredible talent. Fashion is really a world, besides the creation, that I think is super interesting, super inspiring.

  Nicolas Ghesquiere

  Fashion, Thinking, Interesting

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• I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect.

  Peter Marino

  Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

  Carl Sagan

  Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city.

  Massimo Vignelli

  School, Years, Cities

  Source: bigthink.com

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