1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

What I do isn't radical. It's just distinct in small ways. Annabelle Selldorf

Radical Distinct Ways Small Just

Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. Antoine Predock

Architecture Ride Physical Intellectual

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. Antoine Predock

Fashion Day Every Day Architecture Space Dance Building Every Cinematography Way Cities See Through Open-Ended Sort Within Occur Dictatorial Options Personal Orchestrated Movement Where Moves Creating Body Episodic Moments Choreography Film

The prime communities of the Southwest are survival communities. Their sustenance is governed by rainfall and wind direction. You can study little enclaves of plant materials, how they huddle together for protection. Some are nurse crops. Antoine Predock

You Survival Together Protection Plant Wind Nurse Some Crops Direction Study Prime How Governed Materials Southwest Sustenance Little Communities

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. Antoine Predock

Environmental Good Great Animal Architecture Political Cause Responsibility Building Think Way Kind Through Because Advocacy Becomes Political Animal Really

I try to understand place on a deeper level than just the physical or environmental aspects. It includes cultural and intellectual forces, too. It's an inclusive approach that brings in many disciplines and sees place as a dynamic thing. Antoine Predock

Environmental Try Inclusive Too Approach Physical Sees Forces Disciplines Understand Cultural Intellectual Than Just Dynamic Place Aspects Many Deeper Deeper Level Thing Level Brings

My beginnings in the Southwest are clear and palpable. My beginnings here made me pay attention to where the sun is, where the winds are, the power of the site... I take that baggage with me. Antoine Predock

Me Made Power Pay Pay Attention Sun Winds Take Clear Attention Baggage Beginnings Southwest Site Where Palpable Here

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature. Antoni Gaudi

Great Nature Book Great Book Human Human Beings Anything Created Beings

In the Sagrada Familia, everything is providential. Antoni Gaudi

Everything

The creation continues incessantly through the media of man. Antoni Gaudi

Man Creation Through Incessantly Media

Copiers do not collaborate. Antoni Gaudi

Collaborate

The primary factor is proportions. Arne Jacobsen

Design Factor Proportions Primary

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. Arne Jacobsen

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio. Arne Jacobsen

Philosophy Favourite Studio Sitting Thing

That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another. Arne Jacobsen

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. Arne Jacobsen

Life Architecture Become Else Everything Everything Else Entire Entire Life Consume Tends

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. Arne Jacobsen

Architecture Long See Properly Excluded Term Buildings Any Done Should

On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out. Arne Jacobsen

Quality Enthusiasm Sense Other Otherwise Everything Out Threw Thrown Understand Hand Antique Shop Declined Grandma

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it. Arne Jacobsen

Buy People Care Really Who Chair Designed

Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training. Arne Jacobsen

You Training School Think Has-Been Besides Fine Some Both Through Comradeship Fairly Because Been Boarding Boarding School Then Hard Resistance

But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago. Arne Jacobsen

Home You Later Thousands Thousands Of Years Emerge Invented Abroad Inspiration Come House Well Course None Years Years Ago Sink Impressions Done May Us Asked Fortunately Many Found

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one. Arne Jacobsen

First Other Right One Solution Solutions Fact Feel Until Although Proves Often In Fact Confronted Certain Initial Right

In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver. Arne Jacobsen

Small Things Quality Sense Gone Way Neighbour Status Silver Small Steel Acceptable Improved Use Uses Even Things Symbol

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