Architecture Quotes - Page 6
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.
Charlie Rose interview, November 14, 2001.
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
Louis I. Kahn, Peter S. Reed (1970). “Global architecture”
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”
Quoted in Marcel Haedrich Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1972), ch.1 (translated by Charles Lam Markmann).
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 ...”
"L'Arche de Noé" by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, (p. 48), 1968.