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  • I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in life. And then I would start to look at architectural magazines and I eventually went to the school of architecture too, but one of the things I learned very early is that an architect should be able to design anything from a spoon to the city.

    School   Years   Cities  
    Source: bigthink.com
  • The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Design  
  • I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

    Funny   Beach   Hate  
  • When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

    "The Universal Book of Mathematics". Book by David Darling, p. 34, November 8, 2004.
  • All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Space  
  • Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

    Art   Badass   Bad Ass  
    What We Live By (1932) pt. 2, ch. 12
  • Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

    Badass   Moving   Heart  
    Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.
  • Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

  • Each new situation requires a new architecture.

  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

    Walden ch. 18 (1854)
  • Architecture begins where engineering ends.

    Speech at Harvard Department of Architecture. "Architects on Architecture". Book by Paul Heyer, 1966.
  • In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture and design. Balance is a way of trying to talk about being at the center of things.

    Art   Buddhism   Design  
  • 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.

    "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.
  • I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Design  
  • All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

    Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1995). “1949-1959”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

    Beauty   God   Daughter  
    'The Holy State and the Profane State' (1642) bk. 3 'Of Building'
  • People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work.

    Badass   Home   Mean  
  • Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

    Badass   Real   Bad Ass  
    Frank Stella, Bonnie Clearwater (2000). “Frank Stella at 2000”, Museum of Contemporary Art
  • The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness.

  • In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine.

  • I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

    Art   Badass   Bad Ass  
  • Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

    Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”
  • I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

    Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

    "Cowboy builder" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2001.
  • Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

    Funny   Money   Badass  
    Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.17, University of Georgia Press
  • Home is where you hang your architect.

    Badass   Home   Bad Ass  
  • We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.

    Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker
  • Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

    Badass   Bad Ass   Space  
    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Alexander von Vegesack, Matthias Kries, Vitra Design Museum (1998). “Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno”, Skira - Berenice
  • In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

    Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9
  • I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

    Badass   Bad Ass   People  
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