Architecture Quotes - Page 16

• I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

  Tadao Ando

  Badass, Bad Ass, Design

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• Home is where you hang your architect.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Badass, Home, Bad Ass

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• As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

  Norman Foster

  Badass, Past, Bad Ass

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• There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.

  David Chipperfield

  Badass, Mean, Bad Ass

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• The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room.

  El Lissitzky

  Badass, Inspiration, Bad Ass

  El Lissitzky (1968). “El Lissitzky: life, letters, texts”

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• In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

  Oskar Schlemmer

  Badass, Inspiration, Simple

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• The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Genius, Talent

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.172, Penguin

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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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• One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach - of course - and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

  Oksana Baiul

  Beach, Vacation, People

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• The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Thinking, Serendipity

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Photography, Art, Hands

  Robert Mapplethorpe, Edmund White (1995). “Altars”, Vintage

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• Old houses mended, Cost little less than new before they're ended.

  Colley Cibber

  Party, House, Cost

  Colley Cibber (1761). “The double gallant: or, The sick lady's cure”, p.7

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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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• A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspiration, Science, Coffins

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1995). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

  Robin Boyd

  Beauty, Beautiful, Country

  Robin Boyd, Australian Broadcasting Commission (1967). “Artificial Australia”

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• The Australian backyard was once built for tradesmen and outdoor toilets. As suburbs spread, it became a playground and source of pride.

  Pete Munro

  Pride, Garden, Backyards

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• Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether haven, pantry or playground, they all tell a story.

  Pete Munro

  Garden, Play, Backyards

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• There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

  John Baldacci

  Art, Thinking, Engineering

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• A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

  John Irving

  Wall, Writing, Diaries

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• The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

  Beaumont Newhall

  Photography, People, Fundamentals

  Beaumont Newhall (1982). “The history of photography: from 1839 to the present”, Bulfinch Press

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• Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture.

  Robert Adams

  Photography, Firsts, Photographer

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

  Tadao Ando

  Moving, People, Inspire

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• The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

  Peter Eisenman

  Comforting, Remember, Building

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• To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

  Eero Saarinen

  Men, Lines, Language

  Eero Saarinen (1962). “Eero Saarinen on His Work: A Selection of Buildings Dating from 1947 to 1964 with Statements by the Architect”, New Haven : Yale University Press

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• I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.

  Toyo Ito

  Giving, Trying, Quality

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