American Architect Quotes
240 American Architect quotes:
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
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"If I have a style, I am not aware of it."
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"Buildings should serve people, not the other way around."
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"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
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"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
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"TV is chewing gum for the eyes."
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"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
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"We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless."
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"An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
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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."
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"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
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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."
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"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."
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"My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone."
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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."
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"Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it."
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"Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die."
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"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
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"Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have."
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"My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness."
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