Famous quotes by Architects

"I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us"

Daniel Libeskind, Architect

"We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing"

Rem Koolhaas, Architect

"That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions"

Arne Jacobsen, Architect

"There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great traditional buildings of the past, the villages and tents and temples in which man feels at home, have always been made by people who were very close to the center of this way"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"Once you understand this way, you will be able to make your room alive; you will be able to design a house together with your family; a garden for your children; places where you can work; beautiful terraces where you can sit and dream"

Christopher Alexander, Architect

"In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to us the kinds of buildings and cities required by the informational society"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart"

Kenzo Tange, Architect

"So I think that, yes, anything that makes it more palatable and easier to understand, such as a Virtual Centre, has to be seen as a primary activity within the educational and information global state"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people"

Richard Rogers, Architect

"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes"

Walter Gropius, Architect

"Architecture is not an inspirational business; it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"Good design doesn't date"

Harry Seidler, Architect

"From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of those towers, right and left"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life, my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good"

Ralph Thomas Walker, Architect

"I hope for the experience of people standing together, turning their backs to the city and facing this, and hearing the leaves rustle. Well, maybe it won't be as bucolic as at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but I know you will feel removed from the city"

Michael Arad, Architect

"I have been wounded like this since about half past eight this morning, and I will tell you how it happened"

Francesco Borromini, Architect

"Even in modern art, artists have used methods based on calculation, inasmuch as these elements, alongside those of a more personal and emotional nature, give balance and harmony to any work of art"

Max Bill, Architect

"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Space is the breath of art"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The truth is more important than the facts"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Freedom is from within"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"An idea is salvation by imagination"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

"Less is only more where more is no good"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

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