1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

I've never looked at a suburban building as being a minor building and an urban building as being a major building. Helmut Jahn

Building Minor Never Major Looked Being Suburban Urban

We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. Helmut Jahn

Work Will Our Pleasurable Machine Environment Like Buildings Want Create

For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job. Helmut Jahn

Me Job Though Over Get Fun

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. Helmut Jahn

Architecture Nothing Strive Taken Which Away

I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life. Helmut Jahn

Life Generation People Demanding Think More Poised Environment Terms How Dominate Younger Younger Generation Workforce Conscious Socially

In Europe, they're more demanding, the ones that rent the build ings. Helmut Jahn

Demanding Build More Rent Europe

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance. Helmut Jahn

You Experience Building Starts Distance See How Creating Unique Unique Experience

We prefer synthetic rather than natural materials. Natural products are almost too valuable. Wood is much harder to produce than metal. And metal is recyclable, while wood isn't. Helmut Jahn

Natural Valuable Too Synthetic Rather Almost Metal Materials Than Wood While Prefer Produce Much Products Harder

You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction. Helmut Jahn

You People Beauty Way Come Know Talk Very Expect Just Interaction Chinese Little Room Farce Filled Presentation

I'm ashamed to be German. Helmut Jahn

German Ashamed

When I work, I work very hard. When I don't work, I have to do something where my endeavor can totally take me off what I do professionally, like sailing. It takes all your attention. Helmut Jahn

Work Me Endeavor Totally Something Take Takes Attention Like Sailing Off Very Where Your Hard Professionally

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better. Helmut Jahn

Work Better Think Find Feel Feels Well Exercise Body Regularly

I'm just a nice and easy person. Helmut Jahn

Nice Easy Person Just

Working is actually a pleasure. It's just very time-consuming. It's a way of life. I find that I can work when I travel and work when I run. There is nothing like, on a rainy day, to work. Helmut Jahn

Life Work Day Travel Nothing Way Pleasure Run Find Like Time-Consuming Very Just Working Actually Rainy Rainy Day

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it. Hugh Hardy

During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required. Hugh Hardy

War Nature World Isolation Before Project Those About Architects Never Had Nobody Since Concert Learned Because Halls Built Lincoln Materials Lot Very Brave Any After Center Theater Theaters Then Required Second World War Second World War

Basically, New York housing is designed by formula, with lots of restrictions. Hugh Hardy

Restrictions New Housing Lots York New York Formula Designed Basically

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one's life, and I can't say that the Chineseness in me is not there. I. M. Pei

Life Me Architecture Seventeen Seventeen Years Background Say Studied Came Years Western America Formative Technical

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors. I. M. Pei

Architecture Space Neighbors Must Violence

I liked the America of Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton - it was all a dream, of course, but a very alluring dream for a young man from Canton. I. M. Pei

Man Young Chaplin Dream Charlie Charlie Chaplin Crosby Alluring Liked Course Very America Young Man Keaton Buster Bing Bing Crosby

The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan. I. M. Pei

First Practice Building Own Chapel My Own Taiwan Did Decent

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