Thursday, 21 August 2014

WHAT ARCHITECTS SAY ABOUT ARCHITECTURE?

A - ALVAR AALTO
     Building art is a synthesis of life in materialized form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

B - BUCKMINSTER FULLER
     We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

C - CHRISITIAN DE PORTZAMPARC
     When I am true to my inspiration, even fight for my design, the project always turns out well.

D - DAVID CHIPPERFIELD
     The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

E - EDWIN LUTYENS
     There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

F - FRANK GEHRY
     
Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

G - GREG LYNN
     It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm- deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

H - HARRY SEIDLER
     Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things ; that's all.

I - INGELS (BJARKE)
     For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

J - JOHN PORTMAN
     Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

K - KENZO TANGE
     Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

L - LOUIS KAHN
     A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

M - MINORU YAMASAKI
     In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

N - NORMAN FOSTER
     As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.


O - OSCAR NIEMEYER
     Architecture is invention.

P - PHILIP JOHNSON
     All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Q - QUARENGHI
     Architect always finds inspiration. I found mine in Vicenzo Brenna.

R - ROBERT A. M. STERN
     The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you are talking about building a house, you are talking about dreams.

S - STEVEN HOLL
     I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.

T - TADAO ANDO
     I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

U - UTZON
     If it grows naturally, the architecture will look after itself.

V - VITRUVIUS
     Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

W- WILLIAM WURSTER
     Architecture is the picture frame, not the picture.

X - XENAKIS
     Architecture lead me to be musician. It identified the artist in me.

Y - YOSHIO TANIGUCHI
     Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the tea cup, but the tea.

Z - ZAHA HADID
     I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simply enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

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