Architecture proverbs
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- Michel de Certeau99◆ The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves to assembling graceful but predominantly unoriginal boxes. Architecture should have the confidence and the kindness to be a little boring.
- Alain de Botton99◆ It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more revolting than that of other ages. How bored we shall be inside!
- André Breton99◆ We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern world through a comprehensive program that included above all else the construction of 'situations' -- defined in 1958 as moments of life 'concretely and deliberately constructed by the collective organization of a unitary ambiance and a play of events' -- but that also necessary entailed the supersession of philosophy, the realization of art, the abolition of politics, and the fall of the 'spectacle-commodity economy.
- Tom McDonough99◆ A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.
- Louis I. Kahn99◆ Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
- Yevgeny Zamyatin99◆ The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius...
- Victor Hugo99◆ Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important than ever that we receive that extra dimension of dignity or delight and the elevated sense of self that the art of building can provide through the nature of the places where we live and work. What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
- Ada Louise Huxtable99◆ An aptitude test established architecture as an alternative [career]. But what decided the matter for [Teddy Cruz] was the sight of a fourth-year architecture student sitting at his desk at a window, drawing and nursing a cup of coffee as rain fell outside. 'I don't know, I just liked the idea of having this relationship to the paper and the adventure of imagining the spaces. That was the first image that captured me.
- Rebecca Solnit99◆ The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
- Frank Lloyd Wright99◆ Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
- Frank Gehry99◆ Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
- Arthur Erickson99◆ Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.
- Stephen Gardiner99◆ Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
- Le Corbusier99◆ The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.
- Robert A. M. Stern99
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