Architecture sayings
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- John Ruskin99◆ We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
- R. Buckminster Fuller99◆ Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.
- Arthur Erickson99◆ Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
- Philip Johnson99◆ All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
- Philip Johnson99◆ Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
- Daniel Burnham99◆ A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
- Ayn Rand99◆ Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
- Alvar Aalto99◆ A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.
- Nikolaus Pevsner99◆ Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe99◆ If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order.
- Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe99◆ Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo style of architecture.
- Ernest Hemingway99◆ In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
- Henry Watton99◆ The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest wave of historical preservation in the history of man.
- George E Hartman99◆ Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture
- Frank Lloyd Wright99
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