Architecture Quotes - Page 34

• I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

  Brad Pitt

  Design, Furniture, Scales

  "Brad Pitt Discusses His Furniture Collection in an Exclusive Interview". Interview with Stephen Wallis, www.architecturaldigest.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.

  Auguste Rodin

  Witty, Art, Block

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• The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

  Carl Rogers

  Art, Unique, Essence

  Carl Ransom Rogers (1961). “On becoming a person: a therapist's view of psychotherapy”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Love, Family, Happiness

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.56, Princeton Architectural Press

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• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

  Jean Rostand

  Beauty, Art, Being Beautiful

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Eye, Hands

  John Ruskin (2015). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.228, John Ruskin

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• People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

  Tom Kundig

  Badass, Home, Mean

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• Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.

  John Mercer Johnson

  Badass, Bad Ass, Clients

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• The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

  Kevin McCloud

  Badass, Bad Ass, Fancy

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• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Fighting, Bad Ass

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• There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?

  Zaha Hadid

  Degrees, Sticks, Architect

  "Master builder". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 3, 2003.

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• The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.

  Louis Kahn

  Sun, Sides, Building

  "The Wurmanizer". www.wired.com. February 1, 2000.

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• Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

  Kenzo Tange

  Design, Today, Ordinary

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• Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

  Bob Barr

  Beautiful, Country, Gun

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• And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Order, Play, House

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

  Robert Smithson

  Art, Sculpture, Painting

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.42, Univ of California Press

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• A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

  Curtis W. Fentress

  Real, Details, Building

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• The future of architecture is culture.

  Philip Johnson

  Culture

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• Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

  Peter York

  Chandeliers, Jewellery

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• When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that void, to recapture that sense of life which was once to be found in any house or shed. Yet the sense of place is not to be recovered through any attitude, device, or style, but through the principles of pattern, spirit, and context.

  Jonathan Hale

  Attitude, House, Effort

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• The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

  David Chipperfield

  Differences, Good And Bad

  "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home". Interview with Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.

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• My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious and important the architecture is. That has been my life's work.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Ambition, Support, Important

  "Architect of Optimism". Interview with Angel Gurria-Quintana, www.ft.com. April 13, 2007.

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• I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born.

  Eric Kandel

  Art, Views, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Thinking, Important, Appropriateness

  "'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

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• The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Lying, Thinking, Surprise

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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