55 quotes found
“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”
“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.”
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
“How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?”
“The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.”
“Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.”
“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analy...”
“Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.”
“In speculative buildings which is most of our business there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence the top and the elevator cab.”
“A house is a machine for living.”
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike fo...”
“Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”
“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.”
“I call architecture 'petrified music'.”
“Form ever follows function.”
“Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.”
“Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?”
“You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.”
“To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.”
