Architecture Quotes - Page 28

• Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.

  Minoru Yamasaki

  Country, Europe, Japanese Architecture

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• In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Crazy, Rip

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• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  Barry Mann

  College, Years, Study

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• There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

  Peter Zumthor

  Real, Quality, Needs

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• Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

  Peter Zumthor

  Letting Go, Order, Care

  "Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2011.

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• I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

  Peter Zumthor

  Thinking, Chance, Study

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• In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

  Peter Zumthor

  Waste, Resistance, Language

  Peter Zumthor (1999). “Architektur denken”

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• Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America, they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I'd say Quebec city is the most beautiful city in North America I've seen.

  Sebastian Bach

  Beautiful, Cities, Shopping

  "Ex-Skid Row Frontman Sebastian Bach on What's Cool in Canada". Interview with Avinash Ramsadeen, www.foxnews.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

  Leon Krier

  Architect, I Can

  Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

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• If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

  Leon Krier

  Ideas, Political, Towns

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• Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings ... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

  Leon Krier

  Towns, Planning, Evolution

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

  Leon Krier

  Intellectual, Needs, Want

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• The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

  Peter Eisenman

  Needs, Compromise, Made

  "Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2008.

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• I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, People, Enough

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• I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

  Peter Eisenman

  Believe, Hero, Writing

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• I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

  Toyo Ito

  Cities, People, Community

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• I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wells, Feels, Handle

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• The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the US. I think there's a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn't meant to last.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Thinking, Creating, World

  "State trouper". Interview with Lynsey Hanley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2005.

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• I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Strong, Invention, Used

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• The
  blending of architecture, solar, wind, biological and electronic
  technologies with housing, food production, and waste utilization within
  an ecological and cultural context will be the basis of creating a new
  ...design science for the post-petroleum era.

  John Todd

  Technology, Wind, Creating

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• The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of intergovernmental organizations can cope with.

  Amitai Etzioni

  Issues, Organization, Needs

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• People actually ask me why I bring in projects on budget and on time. It seems I am not living up to the fashionable genius role. I really enjoy when a project gets down to the wire, and through sheer force of will and faith in our process, we cross the goal line, when most people thought it impossible.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  People, Goal, Wire

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• There are many satisfactions in public architecture but one of the greatest is the moment when you unveil a project and suddenly a group of adults

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Adults, Groups, Satisfaction

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• Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Building, Should, Notion

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• It takes a great client to create great architecture.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Clients

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