Architect Quotes - Page 27

• Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums.

  Martin Filler

  Jobs, Artist, Winning

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• For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

  Herman Melville

  Book, Cash, May

  Herman Melville (2008). “Moby-Dick”, p.159, Velvet Element Books

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• I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years.

  Rick Riordan

  Hate, Thinking, Years

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• A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

  Renzo Piano

  Museums, Should, Loses

  "8 Unconventional - And Brilliant - Ideas for Getting Over a Breakup" by Kate Friedman, www.glamour.com. June 1, 2017.

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• The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification

  Tom DeLay

  Memorial Day, War, Enemy

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• You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Light, Doors

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• The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

  Jules Verne

  Science, Stuff, Firm

  Jules Verne (1998). “Journey to the Centre of the Earth”, p.146, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Inspirational Life, Wish, Together

  "Man's Search For Meaning".

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• The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

  Robert Hunter

  Golf, Player, Scratches

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• Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

  John Mercer Johnson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Clients

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• The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he had simply made a servant of Nature - art can go no further.

  Lew Wallace

  Art, Nature, Epic

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• The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Differences, Simplicity, Design

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• Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

  Mario Bellini

  Chairs

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• As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This is very important, for no work can be rightly done without honesty and incorruptibility.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Honesty, Philosophy, Self

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 7,

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• Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.

  Pat Gillick

  Baseball, Jobs, Team

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• In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Pieces, Facts

  "De architectura (Ten Books on Architecture)". Book by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Book VI, Chapter VIII, Section 10), circa 15 BC.

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• An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Remembrance, Educated

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 4,

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• The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Design, Principles, Temples

  "The Ten Books On Architecture". Book III. Chapter I, Sec. 1, 15BC.

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• Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense in the construction of works. ...the architect does not demand things which cannot be found or made ready without great expense. For example: it is not everywhere that there is plenty of pitsand, rubble, fir, clear fir, and marble... Where there is no pitsand, we must use the kinds washed up by rivers or by the sea... and other problems we must solve in similar ways.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Sea, Rivers, Common Sense

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter II, Section 8,

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• Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to tune ballistae , catapultae, and scorpiones to the proper key. For to the right and left in the beams are the holes in the frames through which the strings of twisted sinew are stretched by means of windlasses and bars, and these strings must not be clamped and made fast until they give the same correct note to the ear of the skilled workman.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Mean, Keys, Giving

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 8,

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• Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used by everybody, people of all walks of life. If a building is to meet the needs of all the people, the architect must look for some common ground of understanding and experience.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  People, House, Understanding

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• Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Time, Prisoner

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• In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives significance is a demonstration on scientific principles. One who professes himself an architect should be well versed in both directions.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Giving, Principles, May

  "De architectura". Book by Vitruvius. Book I, Chapter I, Section 3,

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• Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.

  Kim Gandy

  Jobs, Police, Walks

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• I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let that world know. That would do more to end prejudice overnight than anybody would imagine. I urge them to do that, urge them to come out. Only that way will we start to achieve our rights.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Doctors, Rights

  Tape recording (November 18, 1977) to be played in the event of his assassination as quoted in Randy Shilts "The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk" (pp. 276-277), 1982.

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