Wednesday 8 July 2015

Quote's from Architects


Courtesy of Princeton Architectural Press
"The details are not the details. They make the design." -Charles Eames
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on a beach."- Philip Johnson
"Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new staircase steps every day in connection with all our houses, but a standardized step depends on the height of the buildings and on all kinds of things".
-Alvar Aalto

"access to design is not just a privilege—it is a public right" - Roberta M Feldman and Sergio Palleroni

"Each new situation requires a new architecture." - Jean Nouvel

"It’s not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion" -Sambo Mockbee

"You never change something by fighting the existing reality. To change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." R. Buckminster Fuller

The best friend on Earth of man is the tree. When we use the tree respectfully and economically, we have one of the greatest resources of the Earth." Frank Lloyd Wright

"Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light" - Le Corbusier

"God is in the details." -Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" Architecture is, by definition, a Political job." - Renzo Piano

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

 

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