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Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Too
Earth
Sun
Buildings
Children
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Funny
Eyes
TV
Gum
Chewing
Chewing Gum
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You
Together
Architecture
Carefully
Starts
Put
Begins
Bricks
Two
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Rem Koolhaas
Acceptance
Lead
Idealism
Breakthroughs
Realities
Certain
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
Rem Koolhaas
Hope
Trend
Will
Become
Cities
Never
Almost
Still
Were
Dominated
Asia
Declining
European
Skyscrapers
Necessary
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
Alvar Aalto
Fruit
People
Architecture
Paradise
Build
Every
Our
Earthly
House
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Endeavour
Create
Should
Product
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
Art
Architecture
Building
Becomes
Then
The one thing all humans share is that we all inhabit the same limited amount of real estate, which is Planet Earth.
Bjarke Ingels
Real Estate
Earth
One Thing
Share
Limited
Real
Same
The One Thing
Estate
Which
Planet
Planet Earth
Inhabit
Thing
Amount
Humans
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Together
Live
Other
Hill
House
Anything
Happier
Should
Each
Ever
Belonging
Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Time
Mind
Will
Become
Analysis
Synthesis
Habit
Enable
Get
Your
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Politics
Government
Freedom
Democracy
Man
Free
Rich
Else
Enslave
Machine
System
Only
Individual
Individual Freedom
Like
Make
Call
Him
America
Expedient
Just
Poor
Means
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Home
Plant
Physician
First
Mistakes
Build
Possible
Architect
Only
Advise
Client
Buildings
Go
His
As Far As
Bury
Far
Should
Vines
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
Frederick Law Olmsted
Truth
World
Power
Humane
Destroy
Possession
Arbitrary
Arbitrary Power
Magnanimity
Over
Always
Sensibility
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
Game
Architecture
Light
Correct
Magnificent
Learned
Forms
You say to a brick, 'What do you want, brick?' And brick says to you, 'I like an arch.' And you say to brick, 'Look, I want one, too, but arches are expensive and I can use a concrete lintel.' And then you say: 'What do you think of that, brick?' Brick says: 'I like an arch.'
Louis Kahn
You
Think
Too
Say
Says
Arch
Like
Look
Concrete
Expensive
Want
Then
Use
Brick
It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That is how you can get things done.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
You
Fight
Better
Clear
Idea
How
Get
Done
Just
Just One
Then
Much
Things
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando
Art
Creative
Creative Process
Thinking
Hand
Process
Extension
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.
Zaha Hadid
You
Architecture
Simple
Calm
Think
Able
About
Only
Excite
Make
Shelter
Very
Should
This is a fundamental view of the world. It says that when you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that the larger world at that one place becomes more coherent, and more whole; and the thing which you make takes its place in the web of nature, as you make it.
Christopher Alexander
Nature
You
World
Build
Isolation
Says
Must
Web
More
Takes
Merely
Make
Within
Around
Becomes
Repair
Cannot
Place
Which
View
Whole
Fundamental
Larger
Thing
Coherent
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Time
Day
Great
Age
Architecture
Poet
Every
Must
Architect
He
His
Original
Necessarily
Interpreter
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Lloyd Wright
You
Believe
Makes
Always
Happen
Happens
Really
Belief
Thing
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and walls that carry no weight. That is to say, buildings consisting of skin and bones.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Nature
Construction
Walls
Skin
Say
Consisting
Carry
Weight
Buildings
Concrete
Noodles
Nor
Reinforced
Bones
To fly we have to have resistance.
Maya Lin
Fly
Resistance
I am livid with rage, sitting here in chains through this mad war which kills any meaning of life... My nerves are shattered and my mind darkened.
Walter Gropius
Life
War
Mind
Meaning Of Life
Rage
Mad
Nerves
Through
Shattered
Am
Sitting
Any
Which
Meaning
Meaning Of
Chains
Here
Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.
Zaha Hadid
Education
Good
People
Job
Important
Way
About
Look
Qualifications
Educated
Get
Just
Taught
Being
Good Education
Need
The worst-tempered people I've ever met were the people who knew they were wrong.
Addison Mizner
People
Met
Knew
Wrong
Were
Who
Ever
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