Modern Architecture Quotes

• 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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• Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

  Marcel Breuer

  Attitude, Style, Architecture

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• We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Engineering, Shapes

  "The Best-laid Plans: How Government Planning Harms Your Quality of Life, Your Pocketbook, and Your Future". Book by Randal O'Toole, p. 161, 2007.

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• Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

  Frank Gehry

  Badass, Bad Ass, Talking

  "Home". Book by Kim Johnson Gross, Jeff Stone, and Julie V. Iovine, p. 43, 1993.

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• To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

  Le Corbusier

  Order, Design, Architecture

  Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press

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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 modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

  Walter Gropius

  Democracy, Architecture, Modern

  "Words of Art: Inspiring Quotes from the Masters". Book published by Adams Media, 2013.

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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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• Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

  Alvar Aalto

  Art, Hate, Thinking

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• My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

  Luis Barragan

  Emotional, House, Pieces

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

  Le Corbusier

  Light, Games, Architecture

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

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• Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

  Luis Barragan

  Motivational, Art, Atmosphere

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• I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

  Roger Waters

  Stupid, Silly, Thinking

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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, Architecture, Building

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

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• The same way that mid century modern architecture was in the 50s, I want to be as a human being. New. Different. Challenging the old. Function over frivolity. Clean living. Clean lines.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Challenges, Different, Lines

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• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

  Two, Together, Bricks

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• Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

  Frank Stella

  Badass, Real, Bad Ass

  Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art

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• The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mother, Art, Civilization

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

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• Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

  Louis Kahn

  Design, Architecture, Reaching

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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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• I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

  Maya Lin

  Art, Badass, Bad Ass

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• Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

  Charles Jencks

  Block, July, Grace

  Charles Jencks (2012). “The Story of Post-Modernism: Five Decades of the Ironic, Iconic and Critical in Architecture”, p.1, John Wiley & Sons

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• Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  Jean Nouvel

  Architecture, Situation, Architect

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• All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

  Philip Johnson

  Death, Want, Architecture

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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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