Architect Quotes - Page 7

• The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Artist, Hands, Design

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1925). “Frank Lloyd Wright: The Complete 1925 "Wendingen" Series”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning

  Kenzo Tange

  Special, Development, Urban

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• I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

  Alexander Jackson Davis

  Native American, Architecture, Building

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• Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Hands, Architecture, Intention

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “Table Money: A Novel”, p.471, Open Road Media

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• There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

  Edwin Lutyens

  Greatness, Design, Architecture

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• The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Artist, England, Architecture

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.423

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• All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sunset, Nocturnal, Architecture

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• Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

  Seneca the Younger

  Birthday, Happiness, Believe

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Money, Badass

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.17, University of Georgia Press

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• God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Wisdom, Father, Home

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Stress, Home, Circles

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  John Ruskin

  Nature, Cities, Littles

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.122, John Ruskin

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• I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

  Tadao Ando

  America, Culture, World

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• A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Nature, Elements, Architecture

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• My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

  Richard Rogers

  Believe, Passion, People

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• That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

  David Amram

  People, Done, Want

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• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

  Thomas Fuller

  Beauty, God, Daughter

  'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'

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• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Steel

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Foundation

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• If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, Architecture, Building

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

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• I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

  Tadao Ando

  Believe, People, Littles

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• The space within becomes the reality of the building.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Reality, Space, Interesting

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• Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Business, Artist, House

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Reality

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• Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

  Geoffrey Jellicoe

  Who We Are, Architecture, Remember

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