Architect Quotes - Page 29

• I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration and madness into something positive, so that two, three, four, five hundred will step forward, so the gay doctors will come out, the gay lawyers, the gay judges, gay bankers, gay architects I hope that every professional gay will say 'enough', come forward and tell everybody, wear a sign, let the world know. Maybe that will help.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Frustration, Doctors

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered, or opinions, or lives; we were meant to marry them. If you wanted to be an architect, you married an architect.

  Nora Ephron

  Women, Careers, Opinion

  Nora Ephron (2014). “The Most of Nora Ephron”, p.80, Random House

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• Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Country, Judging, Design

  Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.81, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

  Denise Scott Brown

  Analysis, Architecture, Sociology

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• Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured brick of unusual shape is henceforth hailed as an architect.

  Constant Lambert

  Sound, Shapes, Matter

  "Music, Ho!". Book by Constant Lambert, Hogarth Press edition, "Toute réaction est vraie", p. 91, 1985.

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• If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

  Marlo Thomas

  Book, World, Firsts

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• The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

  John Dos Passos

  Writing, Mind, Generations

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• Manhattan, one of the most moneyed spots on the planet, also has one of the greatest concentrations of people in its skyscrapers. Its also, of course, the place where every architect wants to build his tower.

  Norman Foster

  People, Want, Towers

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• Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building.

  Norman Foster

  Spiritual, Cutting, Technology

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• One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Responsibility, Destiny, People

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Hands, Feelings, Fingers

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• I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

  Frances Mayes

  Fun, Book, Writing

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• Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

  David Chipperfield

  Ideas, Historical, Criticism

  "David Chipperfield: perfect harmony". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2010.

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• I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

  David Chipperfield

  Thinking, Mirrors, People

  "'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Often architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It’s like we’re actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.

  David Chipperfield

  Trying, Different, Looks

  "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

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• An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.

  RZA

  Home, Becoming, Architecture

  Source: www.complex.com

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• How much does your building weigh?
  A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Technology, Space, Challenges

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• Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

  David O. McKay

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Two, Way, Clients

  "The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.

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• I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured into theater, and that's how I became interested in theater. My first play was something called "A Banquet for the Moon." It was a weird play.

  Mako Iwamatsu

  School, Moon, America

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

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• When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.

  Ove Arup

  Study, Cranes, Civil Engineering

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• The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

  Rem Koolhaas

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• My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Son, Cities, Special

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• I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

  Justin Bieber

  Drawing, Would Be, Being Cool

  "Justin Bieber Talks About His First Kiss". Interview with Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. June 8, 2010.

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