Quotes by Architects

That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions. Arne Jacobsen

Best Solutions Task Artistic Choose

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change. Arne Jacobsen

What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western man with his outward command and his sense of superiority. Arthur Erickson

History Man Sense Distinguished Thread Superiority Civilization Outward Course Command His Western Western Civilization Preoccupation

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression. Arthur Erickson

Art Science Medium Responsive Inspiration Instinctively Ideas May Senses Expression

Nowhere has specialization penetrated so deeply into the building professions as North America. Arthur Erickson

Building North North America America Specialization Professions Nowhere Deeply

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture. Arthur Erickson

Art Architecture Vitality Exceptional

We are yet to have a conscience at all about the exploitation of human cultures. Arthur Erickson

Exploitation About Cultures Human Conscience

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. Arthur Erickson

You Architecture Building Think Way Through Come Your Theory

Builders eventually took advantage of the look of modernism to build cheaply and carelessly. Arthur Erickson

Build Carelessly Took Cheaply Advantage Look Builders Modernism Eventually

No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them. Arthur Erickson

Design Dream Rather No Wonder Like California Industry Buildings Wonder Than Where Them Desert Film Film Industry Started

Our settlement of land is without regard to the best use of land. Arthur Erickson

Best Settlement Our Without Regard Land Use

Profit and bottom line, the contemporary mantra, eliminates the very source of architectural expression. Arthur Erickson

Profit Architectural Bottom Bottom Line Contemporary Line Source Very Mantra Expression

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. Arthur Erickson

Architecture Lightness New Japan Transparency Europe

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. Arthur Erickson

Architecture Beginning Way Guided Voice Quiet

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward. Arthur Erickson

Architecture Research Neither Threat Consultants Takes Industry Limited Nor Provide Itself Which Litigation Choice Regulations Forward

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same. Arthur Erickson

Today Knowledge Our Thorough Period Fairly Because Motivations Same Early

Western history has been a history of deed done, actions performed and results achieved. Arthur Erickson

History Has-Been Results Performed Been Western Done Achieved Deed Actions

I believe buildings are alive, and when you want to make a change, you have to change in the same symphony. Benedetta Tagliabue

You Change Believe Symphony Alive Make Buildings Same Want

You could never hide yourself in these places - in Mies's Farnsworth house, for example. That was a mistake of Modernism. People need places to hide from each other, too. You need everything. Ben van Berkel

You Mistake Yourself People Hide Example Too Other Everything Could Never For Example House Places Modernism Each Need

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret. Bernard Tschumi

Architecture Regret Father About Never Talked Which