Architect Quotes - Page 21

• You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

  Renzo Piano

  Criticism, Architecture, Harmony

  "The Shard: Renzo Piano's great glass elevator". Interview With Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2012.

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• If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

  Peter Zumthor

  Artist, Together, Know How

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• You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

  Le Corbusier

  Knows

  "Lived-in Architecture: Le Corbusier's Pessac Revisited". Book by Philippe Boudon, trans. Gerald Onn, 1969.

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• The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

  Norman Cousins

  Medicine, Needs, Pharmacy

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• Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.

  Cedric Price

  Dull, Matter, Lost

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• Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

  Samuel

  Teacher, Leader, Pursuit

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• When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.

  Richard Meier

  Thinking, Space, Light

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• Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

  Joseph Pilates

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• We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to look at, nor to live in or around, to a new century where there's a real desire for housing that's affordable, flexible, and places community at the heart of its thinking. For architects and the public it's an enticing prospect.

  Will Gompertz

  Real, Moving, Heart

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• Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.

  Zhang Xin

  Japan, Years, Design

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

  Guru Nanak

  Karma, Husband, Doe

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• Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true if you are a housewife, architect or engineer.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Success, Business

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.4, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

  Fumihiko Maki

  Badass, Eye, Bad Ass

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• Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Thinking, Tasks, Needs

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.52, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

  Renzo Piano

  Dream, Wells, Adventurer

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• What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?

  Kanye West

  What If, Way, You Re The Best

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• A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely practical within the scope of available technology.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Self, Survival

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2009). “Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure”, p.53, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans and nature as part of any project. It’s illustrated with my own watercolors I hope it will inspire the next generation of architects to design places we can all enjoy.

  Sim Van der Ryn

  Book, Journey, Discovery

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• At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can anything be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God? He will not say that chance has made him different from the brutes; . . . but, substituting Nature as the architect of the universe, he suppresses the name of God.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Men, Names

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books First and Second”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map of the explorer. Think over this for a few moments until you get the idea firmly fixed in your mind.

  William Walker Atkinson

  Thinking, Law Of Attraction, Ideas

  William Walker Atkinson (2016). “Practicing mental influence”, p.40, William Walker Atkinson

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• This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Land, Shelter

  John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.79, New Society Publishers

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• You are the architect of your own life.

  Henry Thomas Hamblin

  Originals

  Henry Thomas Hamblin (2009). “The Power of Thought”, p.4, The Floating Press

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• I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.

  Dale Chihuly

  Artist, Names, Half

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• To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Voice, Language, Individual

  Robert A. M. Stern (1986). “Buildings and projects, 1981-1985”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

  Samuel Mockbee

  Rich Or Poor, Soul, Environmental

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