Ass Quotes - Page 15

• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

  Rem Koolhaas

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• Designers think everything done by someone else is awful, and that they could do it better themselves, which explains why I designed my own living room carpet, I suppose.

  Chris Bangle

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• The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Powerful, Badass

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

  Daniel Libeskind

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• Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people.

  Jan Gehl

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• In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture.

  Nancy Banks-Smith

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  Guardian 20 Feb. 1979

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• I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.

  Fumihiko Maki

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• The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

  Louis Kahn

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• In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

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  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9

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• I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night; almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!

  Richard Neutra

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• 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

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• A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

  Juhani Pallasmaa

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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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• We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Cities

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• Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.

  Cesar Pelli

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• I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.

  Carrie Fulton Phillips

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• Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Badass, Bad Ass, Steel

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• An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.

  Bruno Munari

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  Bruno Munari (1971). “Design as art”, Penguin Books Ltd

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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

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

  John Mercer Johnson

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

  Kevin McCloud

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

  Renzo Piano

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• Home is where you hang your architect.

  Clare Boothe Luce

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• The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

  Richard Saul Wurman

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