1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

I arrived in the U.S.A. in 1935, to San Francisco. I got the boat from China, and I didn't even speak English. I could read a little, perhaps write a little, but that was all. It was a 17-day journey, and I learnt to speak English from the stewards. I. M. Pei

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I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet. I. M. Pei

Me Natural Architecture Mother Poet Think Side Artist Artistic

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. James Polshek

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I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture. James Polshek

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Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do. James Wyatt

Matters Others Trifling Oneself Could Employ Which Professional

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new. Jaquelin T. Robertson

Old New Things Seem New Continue Interested Old Things Things

How do you walk from one place to another? What makes you want to walk someplace? Any place that you want to get out of your car and walk is a good place by definition. Jaquelin T. Robertson

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I'm interested in the gene bank of how Americans have built in different regions in different times. Jaquelin T. Robertson

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I'm not interested in placing my signature on a house but would rather it be a signature of the place it's located. Jaquelin T. Robertson

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Each new situation requires a new architecture. Jean Nouvel

Architecture Situation New Requires Each

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out. Jean Nouvel

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I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game. Jean Nouvel

Game Architecture Favorite Like Play

My buildings are more famous than me. Jean Nouvel

Me More Buildings Than Famous

Since my Japanese isn't very good, I had to have an interpreter to communicate with most of the crew. John Foster

Good Communicate Crew Had Since Most Very Japanese Interpreter

I had lived in Fukuoka during the mid 1990s, and I was a volunteer with the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival. John Foster

Had Volunteer Festival Mid Asian Lived Film Film Festival

There aren't many American directors here trying to direct a Japanese yakuza film. When you combine that with the fact that I don't speak much Japanese and this was an independent film I was financing myself - people were curious about what I was doing. John Foster

You could draw certain parallels between the structure of the Pompidou and the structure of the rocket-launching facilities at Cape Canaveral. They might not have been thinking about it, but I think there is some kind of unconscious affinity there. Kenneth Frampton

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