American Architect Quotes
240 American Architect quotes:
"So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position."
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"So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in and which nowadays is at risk in our culture."
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"So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course."
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"The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value."
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"The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas that underlie modern art."
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"We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural development is fabricated and can be fabricated."
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"You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us."
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"Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead."
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"And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important."
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"And exciting buildings are fine periodically."
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"And I feel that we in our society should not be held by any such myth; that we should do everything we can to gain a delight and joy in our society with all the available parts of the palette."
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"And I like the idea of change. Because I don't see why we should hang a painting on the wall and then just not think of it anymore because it's there like a piece of furniture."
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"And I think that the environment is one very strong way to counterbalance the chaotic nature of our life."
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"And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously."
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"Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily."
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"Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway."
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"But I don't see why we have to take a central hall, for instance, and use in it a sculpture or painting. I think it detracts, somehow."
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"But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like."
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"However, India is a democracy and they deeply believe in democracy and we feel that it would not be good to overwhelm them with propaganda."
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"I believe that we must understand the economy of the situation."
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