Architecture Quotes - Page 7

• In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

  Michael Graves

  Function, Equity, Pragmatic

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• Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful, though beauty had not been intended. I find the like unity in human structures rather virulent and pervasive.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Unity, Answers

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.425, Harvard University Press

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• A Gothic church is a petrified religion.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Church, Gothic

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• The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Foundation, Building, Deeper

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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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• Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

  Luis Barragan

  Badass, Mistake, Bad Ass

  "Cowboy builder" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2001.

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• Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.

  Alvar Aalto

  Mean, Immature, Doe

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

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, Building, Ifs

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

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• I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Thinking, Architect

  "The master architect: conversations with Frank Lloyd Wright".

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• To create, one must first question everything.

  Eileen Gray

  Creativity, Creating, Design

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• Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

  Maya Lin

  Warmth

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• The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Drawing, Architect

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• Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

  John C. Portman, Jr.

  Believe, Past, Space

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• In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

  Delia Ephron

  Loser, Los Angeles, Building

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• Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

  Louis Sullivan

  Mirrors

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• A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

  Ezra Pound

  Real, Eye, Light

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.173, New Directions Publishing

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• Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.

  Jeanne Gang

  Wisdom, Ideas, Design

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• Architecture is frozen music.
  [Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Frozen, Dies

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• The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.

  Robert A. M. Stern

  Dream, Talking, House

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• When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Beauty, Beautiful, Niece

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• An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Boards, Bars, Tools

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• Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

  David Adjaye

  Thinking, Makeup, Space

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• I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  God, Atheist, Nature

  Quote magazine, August 14, 1966.

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• Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Birthday, Meaningful, Falling Water

  Frank Lloyd Wright (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1931-1939”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Clouds, Sky, People

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