Architect Quotes - Page 6

• Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your maker, to the architect of the universe, to the spiritual core of your being. It's a phenomenal lesson.

  Bob Proctor

  Spiritual, Gratitude, Attitude

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Jan 27, 2017

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• The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Years, Prophet

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1987). “Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture”

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• Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Time, Quality, Matter

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• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

  Eliel Saarinen

  Cities, House, Design

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• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Badass, Bad Ass, Doors

  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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• Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

  Nancy Banks-Smith

  Ideas, Answers, Architecture

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• The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Demand, Stones

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.227, Рипол Классик

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• If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Wise, Wisdom, Finding Yourself

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• Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is important is life, friends and attempting to make this unjust world a better place in which to live.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Badass, Bad Ass, Important

  "The Curves of Time: The Memoirs of Oscar Niemeyer". Book by Oscar Niemeyer, 1998.

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• We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

  Bill Bryson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Civilization

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.

  Helmut Jahn

  Glasses, Light, Comfort

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• Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit which it has lost as salon art. Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

  Walter Gropius

  Art, Character, Hands

  "The Bauhaus Proclamation April 1919" (1919)

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• It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion

  Samuel Mockbee

  Greatness, Compassion

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• I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

  Ayn Rand

  Badass, Bad Ass, Order

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• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

  Daniel Burnham

  Noble, City Planning, Architecture

  Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr

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• No stream rises higher than its source

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Source, Streams, Higher

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1970). “The Future of Architecture”

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• My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

  Richard Ernst

  Father, Teaching, School

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• I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect - that was my dream. I was like, yeah I graduated from school, but it's not like you showed up for that. But all he was worried about is whether or not I wanted money from him.

  Jake Roberts

  Dream, Father, School

  "Jake "The Snake" Roberts Interview". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 18, 2003.

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• In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.

  Helmut Jahn

  Artist, Winning, Thinking

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much

  Parker Stevenson

  New York, Wall, School

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• The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Names, Shapes, Want

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• I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

  Parker Stevenson

  Jewels, House, Schindler

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• My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years.

  Alison Lohman

  Mom, Dad, Years

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 12, 2003.

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