Architect Quotes - Page 31

• The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.

  Elliot W. Eisner

  Aim Of Education, Individual, Process

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• Technology proposes itself as the architect of our intimacies.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Intimacy, Propose

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.20, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is special. They are the creator of their life and their way and find something that they enjoy doing that doesn't even feel like work. It feels like a passion. And then just by doing that and bringing that to the world, they become architects of change.

  Maria Shriver

  Passion, People, Special

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.

  Mike Myers

  Self Esteem, Struggle, Acceptance

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

  Janet Echelman

  Two, Landscape, Pay

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• Architects need to restore and protect.

  Carol Ross Barney

  Needs, Protect

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

  William H. Whyte

  Dimensions, Forgotten, Backsides

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• Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers.

  Bruce Sterling

  East Berlin, Europe, Cities

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• You are the mental architect of your own destiny

  Bob Proctor

  Destiny

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• I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect, and how best to contribute in this world filled with contradiction, disparity, and inequality, even passion and opportunity.

  Frank Gehry

  Passion, Opportunity, Trying

  Casey C. M. Mathewson, Frank O. Gehry (2007). “Frank O. Gehry: Selected Works : 1969 to Today”, Firefly Books Limited

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• I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I am not good at statistics. So I hit a real wall with archaeology. It's probably like wanting to be an architect - you think it's all fun and games, and then you have to get out a calculator and you're done.

  Sloane Crosley

  Wall, Fun, Real

  Interview with Meghan Daum, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 8, 2015.

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• Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

  Doc Childre

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Fulfillment

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• What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the architect needs concentrated activities to learn the guidelines, and that is what school is for. But, second, is the public aspect of education. The architect needs to see architecture in the streets to learn.

  Santiago Calatrava

  School, Unique, Two

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of the shopping center [as] a valid kind of downtown. That's taken over. It's very hard for architects of this generation even to think in terms of a downtown or a center that is owned by all different people, with different ideas.

  Jane Jacobs

  Taken, Thinking, Shopping

  Interview with James Kunstler for Metropolis Magazine, March 2001.

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• Architects are the new comedians.

  Simon Doonan

  Comedian

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• It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

  Tadao Ando

  Life, Positive, Dream

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• If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

  Cameron Sinclair

  Focus, Design, Implementation

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• I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a visceral level, I'm very intellectually and emotionally attracted to acknowledging how space functions in our lives, both in terms of pleasure and in terms of control, and in terms of all those factors that form a life. I'm also very anxious and maybe repulsed by how superficial that whole dialogue can become.

  Tom Burr

  Thinking, Space, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza, as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.

  Michael Graves

  Coffee, Issues, Museums

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• But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem. There's no one else to blame but yourself. You've kept doing the same kinds of movies and that's what they want to see.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Class, Want, Blame

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

  Giorgetto Giugiaro

  Design, Artisans, Graphic

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• Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in ways that might initially scare you. That can be being an architect of change.

  Maria Shriver

  Jobs, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Eye, Lessons, Needs

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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• Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

  Michael Graves

  Successful, House, Want

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• Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Beautiful, Essentials, Three

  Source: www.archdaily.com

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