79 Architects Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure. Issey Miyake

Time Generation Live Striving Architects Feel Toward Adventure Boundless Always

Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes. Itzhak Perlman

Become Exactly Exactly What Architects More Involved Buildings Aware Homes Designing

We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs. Jack Dangermond

Work Ourselves Would Corridor Runs Architects New Town Like Doing Line Were Subsequently Plan Ski Transmission Landscape Planners Planning Coastal Who Mapping Maps Actual Things Designs Started Zone Incorporate

Brizo has been my single biggest sponsor since I began as a designer. Brizo wanted to be involved in many different areas of design - they had already worked with several architects, and fashion was an area they were interested in moving into. Jason Wu

Fashion Single Design Several Has-Been Architects Area Had Since Sponsor Involved Were Been Began Different Wanted Different Areas Biggest Interested Moving Worked Many Designer

The web's earliest architects and pioneers fought for their vision of freedom on the Internet at a time when it was still small forums for conversation and text-based gaming. They thought the web could be adequately governed by its users without their needing to empower anyone to police it. Jenna Wortham

Time Freedom Conversation Vision Police Internet Thought Adequately Web Architects Small Could Empower Without Still Governed Pioneers Anyone Gaming Forum Users Fought Earliest Needing

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. John Hench

Somebody Too Critical Architects Finish Structure Color Emotional Colors Part Like Because Very Stand Engineers Found Thing

I was the chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the chief architects the last time we balanced a budget, and it was the first time we had done it since man walked on the moon. We had a $5 trillion surplus and we cut taxes. John Kasich

In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. Julian Treasure

Day Spend One Day Architects Sound Years Five Train

It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes. Julian Treasure

Time Eyes Our Ears Architects Well Start Designing

Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought. Brecht and Weill forever changed musical theatre; Kaethe Kollwitz and others changed German perceptions of the purposes of art. Justin Cartwright

Art Great Change Theatre World Thought Changed Others Musical Astonishing Way Musical Theatre Some Architects Perceptions Purposes Like Around Buildings Built Were German Forever Which

The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer. The Berlin of the architects Gropius, Mendelsohn and Mies van der Rohe. The Berlin of the painters Max Libermann, Grosz, Otto Dix, Klee and Kandinsky. Ken Adam

Education Future Berlin Van Architects Studios Fritz Max Formed Painters Foundation

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what? Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Other Architects Does Working Use Who

We need architects to be visionaries. Ma Yansong

Visionaries Architects Need

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture community should be. Ma Yansong

Today Together Architecture Communicate Strong Past Young Community Architects Talented Audience Form In The Past Social Agenda Worked Should Larger

My first impression of Beverly Hills was that it had a landscape of small houses built by famous architects, so I didn't want to make a big block or sculpture here; I wanted to make a community rooted to the place. Ma Yansong

First Big Community Architects Small Had Beverly Beverly Hills First Impression Hills Make Houses Built Block Impression Famous Want Wanted Place Rooted Landscape Sculpture Here

Architects think that beauty is a crime. Ma Yansong

Crime Beauty Think Architects

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the 'right' answer, like solving a mathematic equation. Ma Yansong

Logical Try Analysis Say Would Find Solving Architects Rational Like Equation Answer Very Process Processes Many Right Right Answer Start

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. Magnus Larsson

Architects Accommodate Human Human Activity Spaces Create Activity

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the styling of that activity, as on the supporting of it. Magnus Larsson

Focused Architects Counterparts Supporting Contemporary Styling Opposed Accommodate Human Human Activity Spaces Create Much Many Activity

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore. Marcel Wanders

Building Design Think Architects Outside Get Anymore Basically

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. Martin Filler

War World Sometimes Achieve Before Resort Machine Fabrication Architects Outright Had Concrete Were After Modernist Custom Decoration Used Initial Expressionist Reinforced Imagery Phase World War World War II

Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural stardom and the inevitable waning of physical capacities prevent many architects from attaining the transcendent final phase more easily achieved by artists in other mediums. Martin Filler

Work Inevitable Other Mediums Final Seventies Easily Carried Out Jobs Physical Architects More Prevent Winning Attaining Demands Cultural Achieved Artists Transcendent Eighties Modern-Day Capacities Many Flood Stardom Necessarily Phase Assistants

A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did. Martin Filler

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects. Martin Filler

Technology Man Architecture Made Building Before Our Dilemma Possible Architects Similarly More New Calculations Concentrating Tall New Forms End Than Modern Doomed Whether Place Forms Public Low Century Twentieth Twentieth Century Ever

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