Architect Quotes - Page 22

• As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a builder. Everything starts from there.

  Renzo Piano

  Artist, Needs, Visionaries

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• Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Philosophy, Circles, Want

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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doe

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• The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.

  Brian Webb

  Fall, Differences, People

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• What we can do as landscape architects is look at how we can use materials to the best
  advantage, and our resources like water. Water is so precious that we can't waste it, we have to
  use it in small amounts, and we have to use it effectively.

  Pamela Palmer

  Water, Looks, Use

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• [There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.

  Michael Hansmeyer

  Motivation, Inspiration, Thinking

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• As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.

  Magnus Larsson

  Motivation, Believe, Inspiration

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• We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

  James Jeans

  God, Science, Creation

  The Mysterious Universe ch. 5 (1930)

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• I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred, but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature, as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder, as an architect of peace.

  Diane Ackerman

  Commitment, Compassion, Hatred

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “I Praise My Destroyer: Poems”, p.3, Vintage

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• The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Golf, Salt, Nature Beauty

  Alister MacKenzie (2015). “Golf Architecture: Economy in Course Construction and Greenkeeping”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

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• The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.

  T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

  Vanity, Want, Clients

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• The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. Each part of a living thing depends on all its other parts to function. How does each part know? How is each part specified at conception? The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some type of organizing principle-an architect.

  Allan Sandage

  Order, Together, World

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• A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspiration, House, Contemplation

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• In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built.

  Emilio Ambasz

  Reality, Impact, Drawing

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• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  I. M. Pei

  Times Have Changed, Roots, Want

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• Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Children, Hero, Past

  Narendra Modi’s banquet speech during his visit to Kenya, www.pmindia.gov.in. July 11, 2016.

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• The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.

  Rachel Maddow

  Beautiful, Hug, Spy

  Rachel Maddow (2012). “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power”, p.6, Broadway Books

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• The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

  Louis Kahn

  World, Firsts, Building

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• She said she married an architect, who kept her warm and safe and dry. She would like to say she loved the man, but she didn't like to lie.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Honesty, Lying, Men

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• You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hands, World, Members

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you know, vinyl records can be very heavy, so every time I have to move into a new house, I need to build a complete new wall of shelves to put all these records, which is a nightmare for the architect.

  Frida Giannini

  Wall, Moving, House

  Interview with Dave Gahan, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 12, 2011.

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• The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musican, the architect, seek each to concentrate this radiance of the world on one point, and each in his several work to satisfy the love of beauty which stimulates him to produce.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Radiance, World, Satisfaction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.15, Рипол Классик

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• After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.

  Micky Dolenz

  School, Auditions, Facts

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• When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

  Bernard Arnault

  Jobs, Engineering, Creative

  "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.

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• I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

  Patrick Duffy

  Dad, College, Years

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