Architecture Quotes - Page 2

• Architecture is invention.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Invention

  "Celebrating Niemeyer, Brazil's Modernist Master". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 12, 2010.

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• Greek architecture is the flowering of geometry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greek, Geometry, Flowering

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• Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

  Helmut Jahn

  Two, Building, Prototype

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• To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Meaningful, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record of the minds that conceived them and the hands that crafted them.

  Anthony Lawlor

  Memories, Doors, Hands

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• A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

  Louis Kahn

  Mean, Building, Ends

  "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.

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• All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

  Philip Johnson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Space

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• For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others.

  Francis Bacon

  Nature, Science, History

  Francis Bacon (2010). “Bacon's Advancement of Learning and the New Atlantis”, p.107, Lulu.com

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• I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, People

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• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Hope, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Games, Gamer

  Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”

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• Architecture is the work of nations

  John Ruskin

  Nations

  John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice - Volume I: The Foundations”, p.235, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Architecture is petrified music.

  Felix Schelling

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• Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Space

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice

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• Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure.

  Zaha Hadid

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

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• A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality.

  Karl Marx

  Reality, Cells, Imagination

  Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.198, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When we build, let us think that we build forever.

  John Ruskin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Thinking

  Seven Lamps of Architecture "The Lamp of Memory" sec. 10 (1849)

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• All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Badass, Bad Ass, Fine

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Future

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  Architecture begins where engineering ends.

  Walter Gropius

  Engineering, Design, Ends

  Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.

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• In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Pride, Men

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• This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.

  Malcolm Miller

  Book, Glasses, Sculpture

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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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• Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

  Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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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

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Men, Imagination, Triumph

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1941). “Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940”

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