Architect Quotes - Page 19

• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

  Walter Gropius

  Character, Spirit, Building

  "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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• Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.

  Philip Johnson

  Class, Want, Way

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• The first time I had sushi, I hated it. And the second time was no different, and then, I just started loving it. I actually crave for sushi. It's one of the healthiest meals. My experiments with food began when I was working in New York as an architect, be it Korean or Ethiopian food or fusion food.

  Riteish Deshmukh

  New York, Fusion, Meals

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• All clients think that they are architects.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Thinking, Clients, Annabelle

  "Interview with Architect Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Philip Nobel, www.architecturaldigest.com. March 31, 2013.

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• I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  People, Remember, Young

  "Interview with Architect Annabelle Selldorf". Interview with Philip Nobel, www.architecturaldigest.com. March 31, 2013.

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• I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Innovators

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• There is no architect
  Can build as the Muse can;
  She is skilful to select
  Materials for her plan.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Art, Muse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Poems”, p.150, The Floating Press

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• We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a private emperor a fee for services, as we pay an architect, an engineer, or a lawyer. If any man has talent for righting wrong, for administering difficult affairs, for counselling poor farmers how to turn their estates to good husbandry, for combining a hundred private enterprises to a general benefit, let him in the county- town, or in Court-street, put up his sign-board, Mr. Smith, Governor, Mr. Johnson, Working king.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Leadership, Kings, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.303

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• We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.

  Howard Mansfield

  Religious, Memories, Cities

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• I travel a lot. Japanese culture is very ancient and very strong. That's why most people who commission work from Japanese architects expect them to create works that have an element of exoticism, the kind typical of Japanese culture. I don't do that.

  Shigeru Ban

  Strong, People, Culture

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.

  Van Jones

  People, American Values, Seeing

  Source: pen.org

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• Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. An architect of ability should be able to tell a client what he wants. Most of the time a client never knows what he wants.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Children, Want, Able

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press

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• If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

  Jim Rohn

  Finding Yourself, Want, Buying

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• In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his work to their wishes. They need him, but they do not order a house just to give him commission. Men exchange their work by free, mutual consent to mutual advantage when their personal interests agree and they both desire the exchange.

  Ayn Rand

  Sacrifice, Men, Order

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.65, Penguin

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• Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.

  Jean Nouvel

  Creating, Space, Causes

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• I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.

  Norman Foster

  School, Littles, Architecture

  Norman Foster, Hyatt Foundation (Los Angeles, Calif.) (1999). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1999: presented to Sir Norman Foster”

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• The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

  Richard Neutra

  Design, Canon, Deals

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• Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Ideas, Long, Mind

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.136, Princeton University Press

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• In the wake of Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state, where she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy, we see entire portions of the world, particularly the wider Middle East, literally spinning out of control.

  Tim Kaine

  Mean, Today, World

  "Mike Pence Says Trump Never Said That. Well, He Did" by Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. October 5, 2016.

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• Dad, once an aspiring architect, drove his own catering truck to feed factory workers in downtown Los Angeles, and mom, with a Mensa IQ and mathematical gifts, served as a bookkeeper and worked in a grocery store while pursuing her calling in music: playing piano and composing songs. Perhaps in a way, part of my drive was to complete their unfulfilled ambitions and dreams, but in my own way.

  Dan Millman

  Mom, Dream, Song

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• Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you find it easier to go bigger rather than the other way around. I think a lot of architects have struggled with small things. Whereas if you start small, it's easier to get bigger.

  Marc Newson

  Thinking, Giving, Jewelry

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• I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

  David Chipperfield

  Integrity, Interesting, May

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• We are the architects of our own happiness

  Gerald Causse

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• Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

  Willis Polk

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• Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

  Joseph Kosinski

  School, Design, Littles

  "Exclusive: TRON: LEGACY Director Joseph Kosinski on Easter Eggs, Secret Cameos, IMAX, Daft Punk B-Sides, Reshoots, and so Much More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. December 23, 2010.

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