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Architecture Quotes - Page 6

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

"Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods". Interview with Geoff Manaugh, www.bldgblog.com. October 3, 2007.

Architecture is invention.

"Celebrating Niemeyer, Brazil's Modernist Master". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. November 12, 2010.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1998). “Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism”, ABRAMS

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press

The room is the beginning of architecture.

Louis I. Kahn, Peter S. Reed (1970). “Global architecture”

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

"Kengo Kuma urges architects to "be humble"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. March 11, 2014.

I see music as fluid architecture.

"POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age" by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers.

Glenn Murcutt (2002). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2002: Presented to Glenn Marcus Murcutt”

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Quoted in Marcel Haedrich Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1972), ch.1 (translated by Charles Lam Markmann).

Architecture aims at Eternity

Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

"Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.

A good sketch is better than a long speech.

"L'Arche de Noé" by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, (p. 48), 1968.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

"Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2008.