Frank Gehry
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.” “For me, every day is a new thing.
I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did.
And I get the sweats.
I go in and start working, I’m not sure where I’m going.
If I knew where I was going I wouldn’t do it.” “I refuse to work unl.
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Frank Lloyd Wright
“You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site” “The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.
Your life will be impoverished.
But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.” “A doctor can bury his.
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Glenn Murcutt
“We do not create the work.
I believe we, in fact, are discoverers” “Life is not about maximizing everything, it’s about giving something back – like light, space, form, serenity, joy.
You have to give something back.” “Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings.
Occupying one of these buil.
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Jean Nouvel
“Each new situation requires a new architecture.” “Each new situation requires a new architecture.” “My buildings are more famous than me.”
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Le Corbusier
“Architecture is a learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.” “I prefer drawing to talking.
Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” “A house is a machine for living in.” “The home should be the treasure chest of living.” “To create architecture is to put in order.
Put what in order.
Function and objects.” “L.
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Louis H. Sullivan
“Form ever follows function.” “A proper building grows naturally, logically, and poetically out of all its conditions.” “Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.”
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Louis Kahn
“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.” “The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. “Architecture is the reaching out for the truth” “Even a brick wants to be something.” “Consider the momentous event in architec.
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Luis Barragán Quotes
“Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.” “Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.” “I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.”
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Mies Van Der Rohe
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” “Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.
There is begins.” “God is in the details” “Build! Don’t Talk” “Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it.
This is no less true of steel and concrete.” “I don’t want to be i.
