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“A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful
catastrophe.”
― Le Corbusier
tags: new-york-city
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“Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.”
― Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture
tags: architecture, detritus, philosophy, stardust
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“The house is a machine for living in.”

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“A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of
food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so
on. Our”
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“What modern man wants is a monk's cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look
at the stars.
Page 59”
― Le Corbusier
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“L'architecture n'a rien à voir avec les «styles». Les Louis XV, XVI, XIV ou le Gothique, sont à
l'architecture ce qu'est une plume sur la tête d'une femme; c'est parfois joli, mais pas toujours et rien
de plus.”
― Le Corbusier
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“A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de "la machine à habiter", déclaraient que
"l'architecture c'est servir", nous avons répondu: "L'architecture c'est émouvoir". Et nous avons été
taxé de "poète", avec dédain”
tags: architecture
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“When I flew over the Atlas Mountains in a plane, I realized that their formation-through erosion,
geological dramas, the action of winds-was completely independent of our moral anxieties; man is in
a kind of cyclone; he builds solid houses to protect and shelter his heart. Outside, nature is nothing
but indifference, even terror.”
― Le Corbusier, When the Cathedrals Were White
tags: anxiety, cyclone, nature, shelter, terror
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“Truth to tell, the modern man is bored to tears in his home; so he goes to his club. The modern
woman is bored outside her boudoir; she goes to tea-parties. The modern man and woman are bored
at home; they go to night-clubs.
But lesser folk who have no clubs gather together in the evening under the chandelier and hardly
dare to walk through the labyrinth of their furniture which takes up the whole room and is all their
fortune and their pride.”
tags: architect, architecture, house
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“The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon
it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of
values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.”
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“L'architecture arabe, la plus mathématique qui soit. Une maison arabe est mesurée au pas des
jambes, à la hauteur des épaules. Les patios et chambrettes sont dimensionnées à la calme mesure
des pas, et les hauteurs du tout sont celles qu'estime une tête portée sur des épaules : colonne à la
hauteur d'épaule, et avec au dessus, passage de tête. Dans l'architecture arabe, on marche. Marcher
là dedans est une fonction digne. La ville européenne peut tirer un enseignement décisif, non qu'il
s'agisse d'annoncer un glossaire d'ornements arabes, mais bien de discerner l'essence même d'une
architecture et d'un urbanisme.”
― Le Corbusier
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“Design has killed architecture.

Design is what they teach in the schools.”
tags: architecture, design, schools
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“Things are not revolutionalized by making revolutions, The real revolution lies in the solution of
existing problems.”
― Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning
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“L'architecture arabe nous donne un enseignement précieux. Elle s'apprécie à la marche, avec le
pied : c'est en marchant, en se déplaçant que l'on voit se développer les ordonnances de
l'architecture. C'est un principe contraire à l'architecture baroque qui est conçue sur le papier, autour
d'un point fixe théorique. Je préfère l'enseignement de l'architecture arabe. Dans cette maison ci, il
s'agit d'une véritable promenade architecturale, offrant des aspects constamment variés, inattendus,
parfois étonnants.”
― Le Corbusier
tags: architecture
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“Arhitectura are un alt sens și alte scopuri decât doar de a scoate în evidență construcția și de a
răspunde unor necesități. Arhitectura este arta prin excelență, care atinge starea de măreție
platoniciană, de ordine matematică, de speculație spirituală, de percepere a armoniei prin raporturi
emoționale. Iată scopul arhitecturii.”
― Le Corbusier, Bucuriile esenţiale
tags: architecture, corbusier, space
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“…the skyscrapers of God dominated the countryside. They had made them as high as possible,
extraordinarily high. It may seem a disproportion in the ensemble. Not at all, it was an act of
optimism, a gesture of courage, a sign of pride, a proof of mastery! In addressing themselves to God,
men did not sign their own abdication.”
tags: abdication, optimism, pride
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“…the schist pyramids can leave us contrite. Greatness is in the intention; and not in dimensions.”
tags: dimensions, greatness, intention
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“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful
catastrophe.”
tags: beautiful, catastrophe, new-york-city
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“When the cathedrals were white, spirit was triumphant. But today the cathedrals of France are black
and the spirit is bruised. The works of the new civilization are coming together in a symphonic
crescendo. The guiding spirit is faltering. The young act, but they do not know. The old cling to their
accumulated treasures, but are unable to accomplish anything further.”
tags: spirit, treasure, youth
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“Education will always be torn between two fatalities: apostleship and egoism.”
tags: apostleship, education, egoism, fatalities
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“(...)mimarlığın, kendilerini bütünüyle ve ateşli bir biçimde ona adayanlara bir tür mutluluk
getireceğini, düşüncenin doğum sancılarından ve ışıltılı dünyaya gelişinden doğan o kendinden
geçmeye
benzer duyguyu yaşatacağını sezemediler. Buluşun, yaratıcılığın gücüdür bu ve insana içindeki en saf
şeyleri verme olanağını sağlar.”
― Le Corbusier, Le Corbusier Talks with Students
tags: buluş, düşünce, mimarlık, yaratıcılık
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“Una nueva sociedad crea su hogar, ese receptáculo de la vida.”

― Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light
Le Corbusier
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Art I
Le Corbusier
Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.
Le Corbusier
To be modern is not a fashion, it is a state. It is necessary to understand history, and he who
understands history knows how to find continuity between that which was, that which is, and that which
will be.
Will History
Le Corbusier
Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a
place to sleep.
Need
Le Corbusier
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Beautiful I
Le Corbusier
The truthfulness of materials of constructions, concrete, bricks and stone, shall be maintained in all
buildings constructed or to be constructed.The seed of Chandigarh is well sown. It is for the citizens to
see that the tree flourishes.
Le Corbusier
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes
are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.
Together Children Beautiful
Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is
construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I
say: This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in.
You Me Heart Beautiful Art I
Le Corbusier
The materials of city planning are: sky, space, trees, steel and cement; in that order and that hierarchy.
Le Corbusier
Our world, like a charnel-house, is strewn with the detritus of dead epochs.
Like
Le Corbusier
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US.
Together
Le Corbusier
You don't start a revolution by fighting the state but by presenting the solutions.
You
Le Corbusier
Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.
Life
Le Corbusier
Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes
are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or
pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and
tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most
beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.
Together Children Beautiful
Le Corbusier
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.
Le Corbusier
Life never stops. The torment of men will be eternal, unless the function of creating and acting and
changing, living intensely through each day, be considered an eternal joy.
Life Never Will Living
Le Corbusier
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.
You Life
Le Corbusier
The house is a machine for living in.
Living
Le Corbusier
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch with the infinite cosmos and
nature. It provides us with places and buildings for all human activities by which the citizens can live a
full and harmonious life. Here the radiance of nature and heart are within our reach.
Life Nature Heart

Le Corbusier
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the
machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music
of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the
world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz,
it would be an incredible spectacle.
Heart Music Soul
Le Corbusier
The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.
Le Corbusier
The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Home Living
Le Corbusier
The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.
History
Le Corbusier
A house is a machine for living in.
Life Home Living
Le Corbusier
Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators
of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.
Need
Le Corbusier
Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art
without system.
Art
Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
Le Corbusier
“I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite
heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and
with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.”
-- Maya Lin
#Pain #Cutting #Loss
“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.”
-- Maya Lin
#Art #Badass #Bad Ass
“A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static
object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.”
-- Maya Lin
#Journey #Artist #Space
“To fly we have to have resistance.”
-- Maya Lin
#Inspirational #Wisdom #Encouragement
“Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find
you.”
-- Maya Lin
#Creativity #Writing #Thinking
“I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.”
-- Maya Lin
#Play #World #Made
“All my work is much more peaceful than I am.”

-- Maya Lin
#Love #Peace #Peaceful
“We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less
than my brother.”
-- Maya Lin
#Brother #Differentiation #Gender
“Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.”
-- Maya Lin
#Might #Next
“My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and
traditions.”
-- Maya Lin
#College #Parent #Want
“You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and
learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.”
-- Maya Lin
#Fun #School #Worry
“Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.”
-- Maya Lin
#Teacher #Thinking #Age
“I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging
out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.”
-- Maya Lin
#Teacher #School #Blow
“I like to think of my work as creating a private conversation with each person, no matter how public
each work is and no matter how many people are present”
-- Maya Lin
#Thinking #Creating #People
“The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike.
Sometimes I think it's magical.”
-- Maya Lin
#Art #Thinking #Serendipity
“Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it
up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.”
-- Maya Lin
#Bad Ass #Architecture #Fantastic
“I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the
names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time
within the panel. It's like a thread of life.”
-- Maya Lin
#Past #Order #Names
“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth
that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting
the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the
shaping of the earth before man.”
-- Maya Lin
“I saw the Vietnam Veterans Memorial not as an object placed into the earth but as a cut in the earth
that has then been polished, like a geode. Interest in the land and concern about how we are polluting
the air and water of the planet are what make me want to travel back in geologic time-to witness the
shaping of the earth before man.”
-- Maya Lin
#Cutting #Men #Air

“Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we
didn't have that complication.”
-- Maya Lin
#Parent #Chinese #Eras
“The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about
teaching, or learning.”
-- Maya Lin
#Teaching
“It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.”
-- Maya Lin
“It terrified me to have an idea that was solely mine to be no longer a part of my mind, but totally
public.”
-- Maya Lin
#Ideas #Mind #Of My Mind
“Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all
valid.”
-- Maya Lin
#Artist #Want
“The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.”
-- Maya Lin
#War #Definitions #Modern
“In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the
eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.”
-- Maya Lin
#Art #Rip #Crazy
“I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got
there, I was the dumbest person in your class.”
-- Maya Lin
#School #Kids #Class
“I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art
and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.”
-- Maya Lin
#Art #Fields #Architecture
“I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American
adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.”
-- Maya Lin
#Pregnancy #Parent #Want
“I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the
World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.”
-- Maya Lin
#War #Artist #Memorial
“Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a
tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.”
- - Maya Lin
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Bad Ass #Architecture #Starting
“Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense
of the word â€“ fed, fertilised by many things.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Art #Architecture #Feds
“Cities are beautiful because they are created slowly; they are made by time. A city is born from a tangle
of monuments and infrastructures , culture and market, national history and everyday stories. It takes
500 years to create a city, 50 to create a neighborhood.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Beautiful #Years #Cities
“Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many,
many things. Architecture is science, is technology, is geography, is typography, is anthropology, is
sociology, is art, is history. You know all this comes together. Architecture is a kind of bouillabaisse, an
incredible bouillabaisse. And, by the way, architecture is also a very polluted art in the sense that it's
polluted by life, and by the complexity of things.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Art #Mean #Technology
“As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you
have to be a poet, you have to be a visionary, you have to be an artist. But certainly you have to be a
builder. Everything starts from there.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Artist #Needs #Visionaries
“Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to
build responsibly and well.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Dream #Architect #Wells
“A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Museums #Should
“If you have total freedom, then you are in trouble. It's much better when you have some obligation,
some discipline, some rules. When you have no rules, then you start to build your own rules.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Piano #Discipline #Trouble
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Fighting #Bad Ass #Ideas
“You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower
block opposite your house.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Block #Book #Opposites
“When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect”
-- Renzo Piano
#Men #House #Architect
“Light has not just intensity, but also a vibration, which is capable of roughening a smooth material, of
giving a three-dimensional quality to a flat surface.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Light #Giving #Quality
“Knowing how to do things not just with the head, but with the hands as well: this might seem a
programmatic and ideological goal. It is not. It is a way of safeguarding creative freedom.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Knowing #Hands #Goal
“You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full
harmony”
-- Renzo Piano
#Criticism #Architecture #Harmony

“There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily
negative. Its the art of putting all your energy into one thing; its the art of transforming even what you
eat for lunch into architecture.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Art #Italian #Lunch
“A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A
piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Space #Parks #Empty
“I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Childhood #Way #Remember
“A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesnt just draw things.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Littles #Doe #Draws
“Every year I spend one month just sailing, but I still work when Im on the boat. You never separate
work from leisure. A boat is like a magic world, like a little island.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Years #Islands #Sailing

“In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I
grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Art #Writing #Past
“Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about
what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.”
-- Renzo Piano
#Art #People #Design
“London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and
urban design.”
-- Renzo Piano
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“The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate
from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of
limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is
sacred.”
-- Mario Botta
 A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the
life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
Rem Koolhaas
Two, Building, Makers
"The Invention and Reinvention of the City: An Interview with Rem Koolhaas". Interview
with Paul Fraioli, jia.sipa.columbia.edu. April 19, 2012.
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 Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's

needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and
reinterpret it.
Rem Koolhaas
Two, Way, Clients
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 Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness
and things get interesting.
Rem Koolhaas
Interesting, Answers, Boring
"'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein,
www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.
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 Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

Rem Koolhaas
Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture
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 Find optimism in the inevitable.

Rem Koolhaas
Optimism, Inevitable
"City on the Gulf: Koolhaas Lays Out a Grand Urban Experiment in Dubai".
www.nytimes.com. March 03, 2008.
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 Sustainability has become an ornament.

Rem Koolhaas
Ornaments, Sustainability
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 There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an

average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let
yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the
place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach.
Rem Koolhaas
Unique, Average, Two
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 The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

Rem Koolhaas
Cities, Machines
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 It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many
contradictory forces.
Rem Koolhaas
Age, Force, Contradictory
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 The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists
expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
Rem Koolhaas
Stronger, Identity, Expansion
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 All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by

political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and
Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the
Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is
subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted
ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package
itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.
Rem Koolhaas
Political, Style, Important
""Evil Can also Be Beautiful"". Interview with Matthias Matussek, Joachim Kronsbein,
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 Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the
design process.
Rem Koolhaas
Design Process, Worry, Criticism
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 The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead

to certain breakthroughs.
Rem Koolhaas
Acceptance, Reality, Certain
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 The good is not a category that interests me.

Rem Koolhaas
Design, Categories, Interest
"Exploring the Unmaterial World". Wired Interview, www.wired.com. June 1, 2000.
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 Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is

by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian
enterprise.
Rem Koolhaas
Omnipotence, Mixtures, Definitions
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 What is now called "green architecture" is an opportunistic caricature of

a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that
architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the
first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that
had an intellectual response to them.
Rem Koolhaas
Years, Issues, Intellectual
"Reinventing the city: An interview with architect Rem Koolhaas". Interview with Paul
Fraioli, www.csmonitor.com. July 20, 2012.
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 Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Rem Koolhaas
Important, Architecture, Infrastructure
"The NS Interview: Rem Koolhaas, architect". Interview with Samira Shackle,
www.newstatesman.com. May 16, 2012.
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 Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Rem Koolhaas
Significant Things, Luxury, Architecture
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 The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal
shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to
build a shoebox.
Rem Koolhaas
Names, Shapes, Want
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 Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas
and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.
Rem Koolhaas
Car, Our Society, Sofas
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 People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and
ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing
to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.
Rem Koolhaas
Thinking, People, Architecture
"From Bauhaus to Koolhaas". Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 1,
1996.
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 Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think

appropriateness is more important.
Rem Koolhaas
Thinking, Important, Architecture
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 There's something really interesting about current urbanism: the only

model is the universal model, and there is increasingly incapacity to
consider the virtues and the qualities that are there, and then to build on
them. The only thing is complete transformation.
Rem Koolhaas
Interesting, Quality, Transformation
"'Lagos shows how a city can recover from a deep, deep pit': Rem Koolhaas talks to
Kunlé Adeyemi". Interview with Chris Michael, www.theguardian.com. February 26,
2016.
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 In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to

generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing,
for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put
together spatial episodes to make sequences.
Rem Koolhaas
Editing, Together, Scripts
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 Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so
increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture
and the continuing slowness of architecture.
Rem Koolhaas
In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished,
it takes on a new life. It becomes part of a new dynamic: how people will occupy it, use it, think about it.
Daniel Libeskind
Thinking, People, New Life
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Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder.
Daniel Libeskind
Badass, Bad Ass, Steel
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Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that
architecture … needs to mirror that complexity in every single space that we have, in every intimacy that
we possess.
Daniel Libeskind
Motivation, Inspiration, Believe
80 Copy quote
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
Meaningful, Badass, Bad Ass
79 Copy quote
Be innovative. Don't listen to the tried and tested wisdom. Take a risk!
Daniel Libeskind
Risk, Innovative, Tested
39 Copy quote
I think to be creative you have to resist taking the easy path.
Daniel Libeskind
Thinking, Creative, Path
51 Copy quote
The official name of the project is 'Jewish Museum' but I have named it 'Between the Lines' because for
me it is about two lines of thinking, organization and relationship. One is a straight line, but broken into
many fragments, the other is a tortuous line, but continuing indefinitely.
Daniel Libeskind
Thinking, Museums, Names
40 Copy quote
Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine.
Daniel Libeskind
Fashion, Magazines, Next
"Ignore the critics – Beethoven was "a failure" in their eyes too, says Daniel Libeskind". Interview with
Anna Winston, www.dezeen.com. April 11, 2014.
41 Copy quote
And you have to remember that I came to America as an immigrant. You know, on a ship, through the
Statue of Liberty. And I saw that skyline, not just as a representation of steel and concrete and glass, but
as really the substance of the American Dream.
Daniel Libeskind
Dream, America, Glasses
"CNN Saturday" with Carol Lin, www.cnn.com. February 8, 2003.
80 Copy quote
Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about
participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious
Daniel Libeskind
Interesting, Statistics, Obvious
45 Copy quote
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
Daniel Libeskind
Badass, Bad Ass, Cities
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The truth is, the way you write music, it's a code. It has to be very precise. It's scientific, but ultimately it
also depends on interpretation. It's very similar to how you grow a master plan: it's an objective
document, but at the same time it is a lyrical document which allows through interpretation to become
a harmonious work of art.
Daniel Libeskind
Art, Writing, Way
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Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
Daniel Libeskind
Cities, Humanity, Architecture
"The rise and rise of the skyscraper". edition.cnn.com. July 4, 2005.
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Young people have the advantage because they have their whole lives open to be astonished.
Daniel Libeskind
People, Advantage, Young
17 Copy quote
We often judge cities by great public buildings. But we admire great cities because people live there in a
beautiful way. You have to think about how each person will live there; you can't just think about
abstract ideas.
Daniel Libeskind
Beautiful, Thinking, Cities
26 Copy quote
What is a habit? It’s just a shackle for ourselves.
Daniel Libeskind
Habit, Shackles
22 Copy quote
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never
get built.
Daniel Libeskind
Winning, Ninety Nine, Ideas
"Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.

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Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that
architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?
Daniel Libeskind
Spiritual, Looks, Answers
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I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we
live as it is for museums, concert halls and civic buildings.
Daniel Libeskind
Death, Thinking, Museums
24 Copy quote
Buffer between commercial, memorial and retail space.
Daniel Libeskind
Space, Memorial, Retail
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And, yes, I love the process of building.
Daniel Libeskind
Building, Process
"You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.
19 Copy quote
It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a
tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st
century.
Daniel Libeskind
Beautiful, Cities, Creating
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I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a
gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time
in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that
fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197
Daniel Libeskind
Mistake, Believe, Ideas
Daniel Libeskind (1995). “Traces of the Unborn”, University of Michigan College of
12 Copy quote
And it is very moving because one has to see the site not as just another site of development but it is a
very special site. It is a site that souls and hearts of all Americans.
Daniel Libeskind
Moving, Heart, Soul
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I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute
something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.
Daniel Libeskind
New York, Mean, Trying
 The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a
composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
Santiago Calatrava
Creativity, Directors, Building
Source: www.archdaily.com
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 I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and

sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
Santiago Calatrava
Art, Sculpture, Architecture
213 Copy quote
 I am always searching for more light and space.

Santiago Calatrava
Light, Space, Architecture
147 Copy quote
 For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture

is an art. Yet, architecture moves a step beyond painting and sculpture
because it is more than using materials. Architecture responds to
functional outputs and environmental factors. Yet, fundamentally, it is
important for me to stress the art in architecture to bring harmony.
Santiago Calatrava
Art, Stress, Moving
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 The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done
something beautiful for the community.
Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful, Community, Touching
169 Copy quote
 The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there
is always a lesson to learn from the streets.
Santiago Calatrava
Eye, Lessons, Needs
53 Copy quote
 There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to

deliver something technically unique.
Santiago Calatrava
Unique, Wish, Exceptional
189 Copy quote
 As a building is resistant to forces acting upon it, a person must be

equally tenacious in life.
Santiago Calatrava
Acting, Building, Force
56 Copy quote
 The way is not always easy, but in order to bring a work through to
completion, you will need a strong character, a broad foundation of
knowledge and an enormous force of persuasion.
Santiago Calatrava
Strong, Character, Order
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 Technology is a vocabulary and a language in which you can say many

things.
Santiago Calatrava
Technology, Vocabulary, Language
30 Copy quote
 You start a project as a young person and then at the end you are
another person. You are ready to go for your pension.
Santiago Calatrava
Ends, Projects, Young
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 The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander,

meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also
the music director and composer. He cannot play each instrument, but
he needs to understand and embody the sense of each part.
Santiago Calatrava
Play, Interesting, Needs
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 Technology is an important element in progress. See, we can always do

something better. We can improve water technology, or energy
efficiency. There is always progress forward using technology and that's
where innovation starts.
Santiago Calatrava
Technology, Water, Innovation
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 These three qualities I recommend to you; tenacity, goodness, and
intelligence. They are as valuable today as they were in the time of the
ancient Greeks, Romans and during the renaissance. They will help
make you good professionals.
Santiago Calatrava
Greek, Quality, Three
29 Copy quote
 Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous
treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of
Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and
delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning
useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful.
Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful, Essentials, Three
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 It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the
skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears
because it is so slender.
Santiago Calatrava
Needs, Skylines, Height
73 Copy quote
 Technology is constantly changing and brings you automatically into the

present. In that way, it automatically makes you build for this time.
Santiago Calatrava
Technology, Way
30 Copy quote
 I think it is important to be present in the places where you are working.

It is not only about doing a project, but following the project through its
construction.
Santiago Calatrava
Thinking, Important, Construction
19 Copy quote
 Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to
mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is
changing around you.
Santiago Calatrava
Discipline, Architecture, Mature
20 Copy quote
 I love the construction process and it is always important because we try

to experiment and do something new, so the builders are not copying
any technique from other projects. Everything is innovative and so I need
to be there and be attentive to make sure everything is running
smoothly.
Santiago Calatrava
Running, Important, Trying
30 Copy quote
 The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially

with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect
possesses keeps on growing.
Santiago Calatrava
Technology, Growing, Computer
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 Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you
can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works -
Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.
Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful, Looks, Architect
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 The concept of an "architect" is one of the oldest professions in the

world. Whereas, some professions, such as a "lawyer", have their roots
in Latin, "Archi - tecton" is actually a Greek word, and much older. Just
knowing how old the profession is gives me hope that we will still exist
for years to come, even if we are changing.
Santiago Calatrava
Latin, Years, Roots
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 What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of
activity an architect must be educated on. First, the architect needs
concentrated activities to learn the guidelines, and that is what school is
for. But, second, is the public aspect of education. The architect needs to
see architecture in the streets to learn.
Santiago Calatrava
Art should be created for life, not for the museum
Jean Nouvel
Life, Art, Museums
69 Copy quote
Each new situation requires a new architecture.
Jean Nouvel
Architecture, Situation, Architect
51 Copy quote
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement
Jean Nouvel
Cinema, Movement, Dimensions
32 Copy quote
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most
important work and duty of the architect to find out.
Jean Nouvel
Design, Important, Different
34 Copy quote
Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing
architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.
Jean Nouvel
Creating, Space, Causes
29 Copy quote
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete
conditions and the sensory impressions created by those, to memories of the place, through empathy to
vision.
Jean Nouvel
Memories, Empathy, Vision
19 Copy quote
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or
structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you
can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.
Jean Nouvel
Beautiful, Light, Color
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My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to
the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and
materials, what we are capable of doing today.
Jean Nouvel
Historical, Today, Technique
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I think architecture has to be a gift.
Jean Nouvel
Thinking, Architecture
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I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.
Jean Nouvel
Games, Play, Architecture
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I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has
the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at
the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.
Jean Nouvel
New York, Character, Ideas
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My buildings are more famous than me.
Jean Nouvel
Building
15 Copy quote
I generally hate the luxury modern apartment with too many things out of sight and so clean you cannot
touch.
Jean Nouvel
Hate, Luxury, Sight
11 Copy quote
If there was a fire at my house I would throw more things on it. The only thing I would take out? Myself!
Jean Nouvel
Fire, House, Ifs
9 Copy quote
I like English parks.
Jean Nouvel
 Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and
try to imagine the future.
Richard Rogers
Future, Past, Imagination
57 Copy quote
 Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

Richard Rogers
Principles, Architecture, Form
55 Copy quote
 My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the
older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can
effect the quality of life of the people.
Richard Rogers
Believe, Passion, People
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 Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

Richard Rogers
Space, Architecture, Building
"Interview: architects Richard Rogers, Graham Stirk and Ivan Harbour". Interview with
Charlotte Higgins, www.theguardian.com. January 27, 2012.
25 Copy quote
 Technology cannot be an end in itself but must aim at solving long term
social and ecological problems.
Richard Rogers
Technology, Long, Problem
27 Copy quote
 The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the
environment, is to get everybody involved.
Richard Rogers
Way Forward, Environmental Quality, Earth Day
24 Copy quote
 As architects we have a responsibility

to society
Richard Rogers
Responsibility, Architect
22 Copy quote
 As an artist, what do you think the biggest mistake you can make is? My
vote for the biggest mistake is being afraid of making mistakes.
Richard Rogers
Mistake, Artist, Thinking
17 Copy quote
 Sustainable development: Meeting present needs without compromising

the stock of natural resources remaining for future generations. In terms
of buildings, it implies resource efficiency, minimum energy use,
flexibility and long life
Richard Rogers
Future, Long, Vision
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 Everyone has the right to walk from one end of the city to the other in
secure and beautiful spaces. Everybody has the right to go by public
transport. Everybody has the right to an unhampered view down their
street, not full of railings, signs and rubbish.
Richard Rogers
Beautiful, Journey, Views
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 I don't understand why everyone has to wear black, grey and white.
Richard Rogers
White, Black, Grey
"Building civilisation". Interview with Geraldine Bedell, www.theguardian.com. February
12, 2006.
19 Copy quote
 Dyslexia, though, made me realise that people who say "but you can't do
that" aren't actually very important. I don't take "no" too seriously.
Richard Rogers
People, Important, Made
12, 2006.
16 Copy quote
 It is my belief that exciting things happen when a variety of overlapping

activities designed for all people-the old and the young, the blue and
white collar, the local inhabitant and the visitor, different activities for
different occasions-meet in a flexible environment, opening up the
possibility of interaction outside the confines of institutional limits. When
this takes place, deprived areas welcome dynamic places for those who
live, work and visit; places where all can participate, rather than less or
more beautiful ghettos.
Richard Rogers
Beautiful, Ghetto, Blue
13 Copy quote
 Cities are about juxtaposition.

Richard Rogers
Cities, Juxtaposition
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 I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least
over 30 years ago - to get architecture not just within schools, but
architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology,
art.
Richard Rogers
Art, Believe, School
15 Copy quote
 Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Richard Rogers
Cities, City Planning, Planning
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 There has to be policies about that, about what materials we use and so
on.
Richard Rogers
Use, Policy, Materials
10 Copy quote
 The gap between the rich and poor is widening fast.

Richard Rogers
Unions, Gaps, Rich
8 Copy quote
 Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the
less I know.
Richard Rogers
Littles, Architecture, Courses
3 Copy quote
 In Florence, classical buildings sit against medieval buildings. It's that

contrast we like.
Richard Rogers
Florence, Medieval, Building
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 This is a pivotal time for urban regeneration. We must take a long term
view.
Richard Rogers
Views, Long, Urban
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 I'm just saying that there are high quality materials, and when we change
them then there should be a way of changing them so that you can
celebrate that change - rather than just 'mix it up'.
Richard Rogers
Quality, Way, Just Saying
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 There are times I almost think I am not sure of what I absolutely know.
Very often find confusion in conclusion I concluded long ago. In my head
are many facts that, as a student, I have studied to procure. In my head
are many facts of which I wish I was more certain I was sure.
Richard Rogers
Thinking, Long Ago, Confusion
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 If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want
to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country,
because that's what it does.
Richard Rogers
Country, Environmental, Doe
6 Copy quote
 There is a Jewish tradition of family, too, but then not all Italian or Jewish
families are close.
Richard Rogers
Italian, Jewish Tradition, Tradition
12, 2006.
 All space must be attached to a value, to a public dimension. There is no
private space. The only private space that you can imagine is the human
mind.
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Creating Value, Space, Mind
68 Copy quote
 The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to
realize an approximation.
Opportunity, Doe, Realizing
18 Copy quote
 The transformation of nature, a total fusion of science, art and

technology in a sublime statement of human dignity and intelligence
through the settlements we build for ourselves.
 My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own

spaciousness.
Thom Mayne
Mean, Talking, Architecture
50 Copy quote
 Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends

enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to
construct a respectable haiku.
Thom Mayne
Patience, Time, Writing
59 Copy quote
 Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of

communication or places of interaction, and that to change the
environment is to change behaviour.
Thom Mayne
Communication, Behaviour, Architecture
22 Copy quote
 The huge problem in our society is the enormous ignorance of the ideas
that underlie modern art.
Thom Mayne
Art, Ignorance, Ideas
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 Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a
certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of
traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-
verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.
Thom Mayne
Art, Interesting, World
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 The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about

human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture
thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
Thom Mayne
Thinking, Ideas, Architecture
13 Copy quote
 Look around at day-to-day life for ideas, and it finds its way into your
work.
Thom Mayne
Ideas, Looks, Way
10 Copy quote
 You can't make anything authentic by asking people what they want
because they don't know what they want. That's what they're looking at
you for.
Thom Mayne
People, Asking, Want
13 Copy quote
 The multiplicity of ideas is what Im interested in.

Thom Mayne
Ideas, Multiplicity
12 Copy quote
 I'm interested in conflict and confrontation.

Thom Mayne
Conflict, Confrontation
14 Copy quote
 We only exist in terms of how we think we exist. Meaning every cultural

development is fabricated and can be fabricated.
Thom Mayne
Thinking, Development, Term
13 Copy quote
 I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the
absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible.
And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any
more.
Thom Mayne
Ideas, Vision, World
13 Copy quote
 So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary

trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our
existence to that course.
Thom Mayne
Ideas, Existence, Backwards
11 Copy quote
 You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific
space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And in
architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on
us.
Thom Mayne
Space, Different, Entering
10 Copy quote
 I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Thom Mayne
Outsiders, Whole Life, Whole
12 Copy quote
 Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of

people.
Thom Mayne
Agreement, Numbers, People
8 Copy quote
 Descriptions of my work depress me. They make me feel pinned down.

Thom Mayne
Depressing, Description, Feels
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 I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense
to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist
on the table.
Thom Mayne
Hands, Order, Fists
"The Idea of the Future Is Dead". Interview with Thom Mayne,
13 Copy quote
 For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Thom Mayne
Fluid
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 Scientific reality is the modern human condition, and you can see that in
the symbolic nature of my work.
Thom Mayne
Reality, Modern, Human Condition
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 So I am totally aware that when I defend the autonomy of art I'm going
counter to my own development. It's more an instinctive reaction, meant
to protect the private aspect of the work, the part I am most interested in
and which nowadays is at risk in our culture.
Thom Mayne
Art, Risk, Culture
8 Copy quote
 Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific

developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
Thom Mayne
Reality, Ideas, Development
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 So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and
desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude
towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.
Thom Mayne
Art, Attitude, Media
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 It's too simplistic to advance the notion of the autonomy of art as a
reason for turning away from the public. You can have autonomy and
simultaneously have connections with the social and political world.
Thom Mayne
Art, Political, Connections
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 Art in progress. MAK has occupied a unique and valuable space as

international host for discourse between the arts and architecture.
Thom Mayne
 I am trying to represent design through drawing. I have always drawn

things to a high degree of detail. That is not an ideological position I hold
on drawing but is rather an expression of my desire to design and by
extension to build. This has often been mistaken as a fetish I have for
drawing: of drawing for drawing’s sake, for the love of drawing. Never.
Never. Yes, I love making a beautiful, well-crafted drawing, but I love it
only because of the amount of information a precise drawing provides
Neil Denari
Beautiful, Expression, Drawing
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 In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places

for architecture than ever before.
Neil Denari
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts

us.
Peter Eisenman
 I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture
are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Peter Eisenman
Believe, Hero, Writing
33 Copy quote
 Architecture is definitely a political act.

Peter Eisenman
Political, Architecture
25 Copy quote
 The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.
Peter Eisenman
Struggle, People, World
Source: www.spiegel.de
23 Copy quote
 I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is
very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for
other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
Peter Eisenman
Art, People, Design
34 Copy quote
 If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time
arranging it.
Peter Eisenman
Want, Too Much, Shows
28 Copy quote
 I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the

next project.
Peter Eisenman
Thinking, Next, Projects
18 Copy quote
 Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Peter Eisenman
Home, House, Design
22 Copy quote
 The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce

endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Peter Eisenman
Choices, Variation, Algorithms
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 The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made
in architecture.
Peter Eisenman
Needs, Architecture, Compromise
"Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com.
July 21, 2008.
24 Copy quote
 I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people

anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
Peter Eisenman
Believe, People, Architecture
23 Copy quote
 I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe
in it as a concept.
Peter Eisenman
Believe, Ideas, House
"Feuds? I've had a few" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. December 18,
2004.
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 The world is too full of information.

Peter Eisenman
World, Information
11 Copy quote
 I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being

rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
Peter Eisenman
Kids, Sky, Parent
18 Copy quote
 I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman
Teaching, Office, Architecture
10 Copy quote
 You cannot live with guilt.

Peter Eisenman
Guilt
9 Copy quote
 Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like
me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.
Peter Eisenman
Feel Good, Individual, Don't Like Me
10 Copy quote
 I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But
that's it.
Peter Eisenman
Coffee, Mean, Use
9 Copy quote
 When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty.
I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.
Peter Eisenman
United States, Guilty, Wells
6 Copy quote
 I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from
the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
Peter Eisenman
Self, Fans, Kind
8 Copy quote
 My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
Peter Eisenman
Wife, Stuff, Taste
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 Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has
a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called
postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.
Peter Eisenman
Baby, Children, Pregnancy
9 Copy quote
 Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it

was clearly a terrible moment in history.
Peter Eisenman
Germany, Moments, Overboard
 Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for
any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the
intrusion of one order into another.
Bernard Tschumi
Mean, Order, Space
Bernard Tschumi (1996). “Architecture and Disjunction”, p.122, MIT Press
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 Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of

knowledge.
Bernard Tschumi
Architecture, Form
Bernard Tschumi (2012). “Architecture Concepts: Red is Not a Color”, Rizzoli
International Publications
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 Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed

with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
Bernard Tschumi
Architecture, Building, Cathedrals
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 To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a

murder.
Bernard Tschumi
Appreciate, Needs, May
Bernard Tschumi, Todd Gannon, Laurie A. Gunzelman (2003). “Bernard Tschumi/Zenith
de Rouen: Source Books in Architecture”, p.18, Princeton Architectural Press
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
 The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In
the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks
and mortar.
Bernard Tschumi
Eye, Bricks And Mortar, Comfort
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 My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere.

The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a
stage for other things to take place.
Bernard Tschumi
Views, Architecture, Stage
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 Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of

all sorts.
Bernard Tschumi
Excess, Delight, Prohibition
16 Copy quote
 I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

Bernard Tschumi
Regret, Father, Architecture
 If I only did what I can do, I wouldn't do anything

Jacques Derrida
Can Do, Ifs, I Can
101 Copy quote
 I was wondering myself where I am going. So I would answer you by

saying, first, that I am trying, precisely, to put myself at a point so that I
do not know any longer where I am going.
Jacques Derrida
Trying, Answers, Firsts
125 Copy quote
 If things were simple, word would have gotten around.

Jacques Derrida
Simple, Simple Words, Ifs
Jacques Derrida (1977). “Limited Inc”, p.119, Northwestern University Press
80 Copy quote
 The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision.
Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.
Jacques Derrida
Eye, Sight, Essence
101 Copy quote
 Learning to live ought to mean learning to die - to acknowledge, to

accept, an absolute mortality - without positive outcome,or resurrection,
or redemption, for oneself or for anyone else. That has been the old
philosophical injunction since Plato: to be a philosopher is to learn how
to die.
Jacques Derrida
Plato, Philosophical, Mean
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
Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example –
can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is
the question of ghosts.
Jacques Derrida
Powerful, Parent, Scary
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 One often speaks without seeing, without knowing, without meaning

what one says.
Jacques Derrida
Knowing, Speak, Seeing
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 That is what deconstruction is made of: not the mixture but the tension
between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been
given to us, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely
new, and a break.
Jacques Derrida
Memories, Mixtures, Break
Jacques Derrida, John D. Caputo (1997). “Deconstruction in a Nutshell: A Conversation
with Jacques Derrida”, p.6, Fordham Univ Press
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 I always dream of a pen that would be a syringe.

Jacques Derrida
Dream, Communication, Would Be
Geoffrey Bennington, Jacques Derrida (1999). “Jacques Derrida”, p.20, University of
Chicago Press
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 There is nothing outside the text

Jacques Derrida
Deconstruction
Of Grammatology pt. 2, sec. 2 (1967)
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 Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'Here are our

monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets.
Jacques Derrida
Creativity, Imagination, Pet
"Some Statements and Truisms about Neologisms, Newisms, Postisms, Parasitisms,
and other small Seismisms", The States of Theory, ed. David Carroll, New York:
Columbia University Press, 1989.
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 There is a future which is predictable, programmed, scheduled,

foreseeable. But there is a future, l'avenir (to come) which refers to
someone who comes whose arrival is totally unexpected. For me, that is
the real future. That which is totally unpredictable. The Other who comes
without my being able to anticipate their arrival. So if there is a real
future, beyond the other known future, it is l'avenir in that it is the coming
of the Other when I am completely unable to foresee their arrival.
Jacques Derrida
Real, Able, Unexpected
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 1) Différance is the systematic play of differences, of the traces of
differences, of the spacing by means of which elements are related to
each other. This spacing is the simultaneously active and passive (the a
of différance indicates this indecision as concerns activity and passivity,
that which cannot be governed by or distributed between the terms of
this opposition) production of the intervals without which the "full" terms
would not signify, would not function.
Jacques Derrida
Mean, Play, Differences
"Positions" by Jacques Derrida, University of Chicago Press, (p. 21), 1982.
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 The poet…is the man of metaphor: while the philosopher is interested

only in the truth of meaning, beyond even signs and names, and the
sophist manipulates empty signs…the poet plays on the multiplicity of
signifieds.
Jacques Derrida
Men, Play, Names
Jacques Derrida (1982). “Marges de la Philosophie”, p.248, University of Chicago Press
91 Copy quote
 To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to

pretend.
Jacques Derrida
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 I speak only one language, and it is not my own.

Jacques Derrida
Language, Speak, My Own
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 I’m no good for anything except taking the world apart and putting it
together again (and I manage the latter less and less frequently).
Jacques Derrida
Together Again, World, Latter
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 Within the university... you can study without waiting for any efficient or
immediate result. You may search, just for the sake of searching, and try
for the sake of trying. So there is a possibility of what I would call
playing. It's perhaps the only place within society where play is possible
to such an extent.
Jacques Derrida
Education, Play, Waiting
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 Peace is only possible when one of the warring sides takes the first step,
the hazardous initiative, the risk of opening up dialogue, and decides to
make the gesture that will lead not only to an armistice but to peace.
Jacques Derrida
Opening Up, Risk, Gestures
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 The end approaches, but the apocalypse is long lived.

Jacques Derrida
Long, Apocalypse, Ends
Harold Coward, Toby Foshay, Jacques Derrida (1992). “Derrida and Negative
Theology”, p.59, SUNY Press
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 Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called

culture.
Jacques Derrida
Culture, Way
Jacques Derrida (1995). “Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994”, p.340, Stanford University
Press
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 There is no rigorous and effective deconstruction without the faithful

memory of philosophies and literatures, without the respectful and
competent reading of texts of the past, as well as singular works of our
own time. Deconstruction is also a certain thinking about tradition and
context. Mark Taylor evokes this with great clarity in the course of a
remarkable introduction. He reconstitutes a set of premises without
which no deconstruction could have seen the light of day.
Jacques Derrida
Memories, Philosophy, Reading
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 We are all mediators, translators.

Jacques Derrida
Translators, Mediators
Press
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 Who ever said that one was born just once?
Jacques Derrida
Born, Said
Press
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 Beauty only happens once.

Jacques Derrida

It is quite interesting that whilst there are tremendous theories, in the
1960s when IT was born, everybody was supposedly going to their
cottage in the countryside to work in a virtual way.
Richard Rogers
Interesting, Cottages, Way
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 My mother was very family-oriented. And I do love being with my

children.
Richard Rogers
Mother, Children, Love Is
12, 2006.
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 Today is much more an age of greed
Richard Rogers
Greed, Age, Today
 Call Berlin. Drop everything we're doing. I have a complete vision of

what should be.
Daniel Libeskind
Vision, Berlin, Should
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 Only through acknowledgment of the erasure and void of Jewish life can
the history of Berlin and Europe have a human future.
Daniel Libeskind
Europe, Jewish Life, Void
"Rebuilding the rubble" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. June 28, 2002.
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 And of course I like Berlin a lot. It's such an interesting city

Daniel Libeskind
Cities, Interesting, Berlin
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 When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you
don't get fed up too easily.
Daniel Libeskind
Kids, Artistic, Bronx
"You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4,
2004.
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 There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be

developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place
protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something
very moving and very private.
Daniel Libeskind
Beautiful, Moving, Memorial
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
 I don't get to sleep when I'm in New York. Really. I'm living on
adrenaline.
Daniel Libeskind
New York, Sleep, Adrenaline
"You've got to have faith". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com.
August 4, 2004.
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 I'm not Candide, nor Dr Pangloss, but we know that faith moves
mountains.
Daniel Libeskind
Moving, Mountain, Drs
August 4, 2004.
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 The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government

funding.
Daniel Libeskind
Government, May, Spirals
August 4, 2004.
6 Copy quote
 You cannot suddenly make Lower Manhattan into a sad place because
we saw such a dramatic loss of life. You have to balance the memory,
which is so important, and use it as a kind of Archimedean Point to
create a lively, incredibly interesting, and culturally significant piece of a
city and neighborhood.
Daniel Libeskind
Memories, Loss, Cities
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 And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a
restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs.
So, that is really the design as a whole.
Daniel Libeskind
Cities, Design, Needs
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 Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's
been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get
solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.
Daniel Libeskind
Zero, Towers, Want
"You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4,
2004.
6 Copy quote
 Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space,
because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you
know, 4 million of us came to see the site.
Daniel Libeskind
Thinking, Voice, Space
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 There are more people living in Lower Manhattan now than before the
terrorist attacks. That's faith for you. There's such a strong spirit here.
Daniel Libeskind
Strong, People, Manhattan

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and
running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is
underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude
idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Rem Koolhaas
Running, Acceptance, Reality
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 Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever.
That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory
demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I
operate in very contradictory times.
Rem Koolhaas
Beautiful, Forever, Batteries
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 We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Rem Koolhaas
Almost Perfect, Incredibles, Stillness
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 There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Rem Koolhaas
Dutch, Architecture
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 Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major
taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity
implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally
not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and
you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is
history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.
Rem Koolhaas
Crazy, Generosity, Support
2016.
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 The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of
urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new
system of formal values, to invent strategies for the distinction of one
block from another. The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates
undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a
new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at
the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.
Rem Koolhaas
Block, Cities, Two
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 I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends -

architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and
organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other
disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as
well.
Rem Koolhaas
Thinking, Play, Discipline
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 Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it

will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
Rem Koolhaas
Cities, Trends, Asia
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 When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an

intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly
independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.
Rem Koolhaas
Independent, Shopping, Articulation
10 Copy quote
 Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But
some buildings make us more depressed than others.
Rem Koolhaas
Unhappy, Way, Building
7 Copy quote
 Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by

groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction
to the notion of a star.
Rem Koolhaas
Stars, Groups, Essentials
24 Copy quote
 Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.

Rem Koolhaas
Manhattan, Disaster, Accumulation
16 Copy quote
 One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large

buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
Rem Koolhaas
Character, Cities, Building
13 Copy quote
 In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of

designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever
site the developer has managed to assemble.
Rem Koolhaas
Art, Real, Design
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 There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in

how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective,
because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and
therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.
Rem Koolhaas
Mean, Perspective, Evolution
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 But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more
and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has
become an ornament.
Rem Koolhaas
Thinking, Political, Ornaments
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 Most old cities are now sclerotic machines that dispense known qualities
in ever-greater quantities, instead of laboratories of the uncertain. Only
the skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made
Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
Rem Koolhaas
Men, Cities, Space
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 As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your

fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the
indolence.
Rem Koolhaas
Hands, Feelings, Architect
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 Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like

and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it
clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.
Rem Koolhaas
Needs, Prada, Term
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 You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

Rem Koolhaas
Typical, Needs, Looks
2016.
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 I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel

compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational
level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are
completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.
Rem Koolhaas
Thinking, Intellectual, Important
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 I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to

observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
Rem Koolhaas
Smart, Intuition, Enough
6 Copy quote
 We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet,
maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very
characterlessness provides the best context for living.
Rem Koolhaas
Cities, Quality, Identity
"From Bauhaus to Koolhaas". Interview with Katrina Heron, www.wired.com. July 01,
1996.
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 When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping

expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much
more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most
surprising became the most manipulated.
Rem Koolhaas
Air, Shopping, Advertising
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 The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is

completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his
desires.
Rem Koolhaas
Men, Desire, World
Rem Koolhaas (2014). “Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan”,
p.493, The Monacelli Press, LLC
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 Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very
careful who we educate.
Rem Koolhaas
Education, Office, Kind
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 I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense

of the sublime with relatively few means.
Rem Koolhaas
Fashion, Mean, Sublime
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 The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to

record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow
transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the
beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two -
recording and producing - into a single event.
Rem Koolhaas
Two, Creative, Events
15 Copy quote
 The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and

surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's
offered to me.
Rem Koolhaas
Lying, Thinking, Architecture
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 I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of

tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly
because nobody wanted to think about colonialism, but basically what
you learned there was that, OK, the sun is here, so you should create
natural ventilation here - an unbelievable amount of really sound
principles that have been completely abandoned, so now everything is
air conditioned with big machines.
Rem Koolhaas
School, Thinking, Air
2016.
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 The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values:
cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result,
urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New
York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is
clinically clean and incredibly dull.
Rem Koolhaas
New York, Sex, Squares
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 Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has
been from the very beginning.
Rem Koolhaas
Ghetto, Architecture, Drivers
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 The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort

that our office almost went bankrupt.
Rem Koolhaas
Suicide, Suicidal, Office
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 In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.

Rem Koolhaas
Littles, Ends, Shops
5 Copy quote
 Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate

Rem Koolhaas
Europe, Unions
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 We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a

single square metre she carried two children all the way to Harvard. She
supported an unbelievable escape of her children into education. In that
sense it was a city completed pixillated, and every pixel contained
amazing stories.
Rem Koolhaas
Children, Squares, Cities
2016.
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 That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos]
could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.
Rem Koolhaas
Discovery, Cities, Interesting
2016.
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 Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its
conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition
—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a
desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the
exploitation of congestion.
Rem Koolhaas
Density, Culture, Manhattan
7 Copy quote
 Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and
the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes
mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is
absolutely surprising.
Rem Koolhaas
Japan, Sublime, Quality
"S,M,L,XL". Book by Bruce Mau and Rem Koolhaas, 1995.
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 The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty

are constantly exploding.
Rem Koolhaas
Certainty, Consensus, Exploding
Interview with Marcus Fairs, www.iconeye.com. June 2004.
7 Copy quote
 Lagos was a city that had been turned against itself. There was a bridge
that became the perfect trap for crimes, which began with nails being
scattered to cause flat tyres. If the driver stopped, the car would be
dismantled in 20 minutes and the parts thrown overboard [to people
waiting below]. The system had turned into a kind of destructive device
that could be used against people. That was the narrative.
Rem Koolhaas
Bridges, Cities, People
Source: www.theguardian.com
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 The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my

view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been
cut off from other neighborhoods.
Rem Koolhaas
Cutting, Views, Political
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 Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.

Rem Koolhaas
Shoes, Journalist, Brands
3 Copy quote
 The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.
Rem Koolhaas
Architect
3 Copy quote
 The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the
state is absent. At that point, the state had really withdrawn from Lagos;
the city was left to its own devices, both in terms of money and services.
That, by definition, created an unbelievable proliferation of independent
agency: each citizen needed to take, in any day, maybe 400 or 500
independent decisions on how to survive that extremely complex
system.
Rem Koolhaas
Real, Independent, Agency
2016.
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 The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team
to address any issue.
Rem Koolhaas
Team, Luxury, Issues
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 Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-
go zone, almost in its entirety.
Rem Koolhaas
Inviting, Zone, Entirety
2016.
6 Copy quote
 Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a

wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody
gladiator fights there.
Rem Koolhaas
Beautiful, Fighting, Past
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 If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try
to do things with it.
Rem Koolhaas
Trying, Reputation, Endure
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 Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally

green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
Rem Koolhaas
 We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly
the same process and ultimately also, perhaps the same logic, attaches
itself to or underlies our masterpieces. We live in an amazing era when
in spite of an absence of masters there is an explosion of masterpieces.
Rem Koolhaas
Thinking, Vegas, Junk
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 Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe

irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if
we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie
everyone elses hands.
Rem Koolhaas
Thinking, Hands, Ties
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 At that time [90th in Lagos], if you drove through the city, you drove
through a foreground that always seemed to be incredibly dramatic and
incredibly agonised - smoking, burning, incredible compression. In the
first year we stayed on the ground and went everywhere. But then in
order to discover whether this was the whole story, we rented a
helicopter. And we began to understand that this is not chaos but a
highly modern system that had been abandoned, then at some point
went into reversal, then slowly came out of it.
Rem Koolhaas
Order, Years, Cities
2016.
3 Copy quote
 Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different

profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
Rem Koolhaas
Writing, Different, Should
3 Copy quote
 I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

Rem Koolhaas
Architecture, Wanted, Contemporary
3 Copy quote
 Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US
State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was courageous of
Harvard University: the notion was that we would match Harvard
students with Nigerian students, so that every student would have a
guide, creating a guarantee of intimacy with the city.
Rem Koolhaas
Cities, Creating, Guarantees
2016.
3 Copy quote
 Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved

in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected
exactly to the degree that it went too far.
Rem Koolhaas
Self, Hatred, Degrees
"Intelligent Design" by Daniel Zalewski, www.newyorker.com. March 14, 2005.
3 Copy quote
 The institutions are working better now, the banks are much more
functional. At this time, 1997, there were no mobile phones! It's a whole
different thing now with mobile phones: technology has created a form of
regulation, because people can actually talk to each other a lot more.
Rem Koolhaas
Technology, Phones, People
2016.
3 Copy quote
 Lagos has also had a particular effect on my career. I was there early,
and although it was a courageous step to go there and invest on this
scale - I went there maybe 20 times - it's also been also super-
controversial. There's an old school of thought that somebody like me
has no place to go there.Because of colonialism and so on.
Rem Koolhaas
School, Careers, Colonialism
2016.
3 Copy quote
 Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the
initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost
utopian landscape of independence and agency.
Rem Koolhaas
Beautiful, Agency, Cities
2016.
3 Copy quote
 It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that

was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite
cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a
really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you
can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical
project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.
Rem Koolhaas
Book, Issues, People
2016.
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 In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts.

Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing
pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos
University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs
to be recognised and preserved.
Rem Koolhaas
Beautiful, Strong, Engineering
2016.
3 Copy quote
 As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere

organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that
circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.
Rem Koolhaas
Airports, Shopping, Organization
3 Copy quote
 Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one

hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city
and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that
city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical
presence.
Rem Koolhaas
Beach, Real, Heart
3 Copy quote
 Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself;
only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-
made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
Rem Koolhaas
Men, Space, Sky
8 Copy quote
 Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour -

largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
Rem Koolhaas
Evil, Crime, Unbelievable
2016.
3 Copy quote
 Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that

knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test
case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a
number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic
expectations.
Rem Koolhaas
Unique, Talking, Numbers
2016.
3 Copy quote
 When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a dictatorship. So

we didn't go with a mission. It started really with a sort of blankness and
open-endedness.
Rem Koolhaas
Missions, Late, Dictatorship
2016.
 When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe
architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's
about space and material.
Peter Zumthor
Believe, Space, Ideas
"Pritzker Prize Goes to Peter Zumthor". Interview with Robin Pogrebin,
www.nytimes.com. April 12, 2009.
113 Copy quote
 In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must

think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.
Peter Zumthor
Thinking, Order, Design
106 Copy quote
 Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with
life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an
envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a
sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the
concentration of work, for the silence of sleep.
Peter Zumthor
Sleep, Thinking, Silence
Peter Zumthor (1998). “Peter Zumthor”
96 Copy quote
 In a fragment of a second you can understand: Things you know, things

you don’t know, things you don’t know that you don’t know, conscious,
unconscious, things which in a fragrant of a second you can react to: we
can all imagine why this capacity was given to us as human beings - I
guess to survive. Architecture to me has the same kind of capacity. It
takes longer to capture, but the essence to me is the same. I call this
atmosphere. When you experience a building and it gets to you. It sticks
in your memory and your feelings. I guess thats what I am trying to do.
Peter Zumthor
Memories, Essence, Feelings
106 Copy quote
 My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself,

has an emotional nice feeling.
Peter Zumthor
Nice, Emotional, Should Have
89 Copy quote
 Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want

to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm
and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted.
You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful
feeling.
Peter Zumthor
Beautiful, Heart, Fire
73 Copy quote
 I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade,
elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.
Peter Zumthor
Passion, Thinking, Creating
81 Copy quote
 I am convinced that a good building must be capable of absorbing the

traces of human life and taking on a specific richness... I think of the
patina of age on materials, of innumerable small scratches on surfaces,
of varnish that has grown dull and brittle, and of edges polished by use.
Peter Zumthor
Thinking, Age, Scratches
83 Copy quote
 If you're lucky, and a building succeeds, the real product has many more
dimensions than you can ever imagine. You have the sun, the light, the
rain, the birds, the feel.
Peter Zumthor
Real, Rain, Light
67 Copy quote
 Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can

assume a quality that bears witness to past life.
Peter Zumthor
Past, Quality, Body
62 Copy quote
 I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save
the world.
Peter Zumthor
Goodbye, World, Architecture
80 Copy quote
 Architecture is not about form

Peter Zumthor
Architecture, Form
63 Copy quote
 Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is
not past and not future.
Peter Zumthor
Past, Gaps, Flow
59 Copy quote
 What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of
construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.
Peter Zumthor
Art, Trying, Shapes
54 Copy quote
 You feel a certain way in a glass or concrete or limestone building. It has

an effect on your skin - the same with plywood or veneer, or solid timber.
Wood doesn't steal energy from your body the way glass and concrete
steal heat. When it's hot, a wood house feels cooler than a concrete one,
and when it's cold, the other way around.
Peter Zumthor
Glasses, House, Skins
50 Copy quote
 In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a

resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its
own language.
Peter Zumthor
Waste, Resistance, Architecture
Peter Zumthor (1999). “Architektur denken”
46 Copy quote
 When I concentrate on a specific site or place for which I am going to

design a building, I try to plumb its depths, its form, its history and its
sensuous qualities.
Peter Zumthor
Design, Trying, Quality
Peter Zumthor (1999). “Architektur denken”
30 Copy quote
 Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a

magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen,
that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the
facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to
stay for a long time.
Peter Zumthor
Wall, Believe, Simple
"Swiss-made Serpentine pavilion presents garden of tranquility" by Jonathan Glancey,
www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2011.
46 Copy quote
 Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people

want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building
together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become
more intelligent.
Peter Zumthor
Intelligent, People, Together
32 Copy quote
 I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it

directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you
learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
Peter Zumthor
Thinking, Chance, Architecture
40 Copy quote
 My relationship to plants becomes closer and closer. They make me

quiet; I like to be in their company.
Peter Zumthor
Quiet, Plant, Company
"Peter Zumthor: In pursuit of perfection" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. June
18, 2011.
34 Copy quote
 There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about

it.
Peter Zumthor
Thinking, Architecture
32 Copy quote
 If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit
unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the
broadest sense of the word, whether its a movie theater or a simple log
cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a
space for human beings.
Peter Zumthor
Simple, Space, Mountain
30 Copy quote
 There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper
architecture, but the real stuff.
Peter Zumthor
Real, Quality, Needs
15 Copy quote
 Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.

Peter Zumthor
Museums, Bigs, Drag
 I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

Peter Zumthor
Passionate, Architect
32 Copy quote
 If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build.
The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
Peter Zumthor
Artist, Together, Architect
8 Copy quote
 I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of

the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for
him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a
sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my
name.
Peter Zumthor
Commitment, Names, Together
8 Copy quote
 I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who
use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is
offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality.
Peter Zumthor
People, Design, Arrogance
18, 2011.
12 Copy quote

 Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and
the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In
my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They
are not available.
Peter Zumthor
Letting Go, Order, Care
18, 2011.
19 Copy quote
 I grew up in a craftsman's home, where things were done with our own
hands. I did cabinetmaking for four years and I hated it.
Peter Zumthor
Home, Hands, Years
5 Copy quote
 The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very
private kind of activity. But it's done to be shared. It is comforting and
consoling. From the reactions I get I can see I'm not doing something
strange.
Peter Zumthor
Comforting, Done, Lines
9 Copy quote
 The first 10 years of my professional life had only to do with running

away from my father. He was a wonderful cabinet-maker, and me being
the eldest son, I had to take over his shop, his profession and so on and
so on. I tried to escape by going to art school and then going on to
industrial design and then interior design.
Peter Zumthor
Running, Art, Father
18, 2011.
 Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a

transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory
quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are,
the more vulnerable.
Alvaro Siza Vieira
Design, Quality, Nuance
46 Copy quote
 Tradition is a challenge to innovation.

Alvaro Siza Vieira
 I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to

interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
Rafael Moneo
Able, Architecture, Chains
11 Copy quote
 Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Rafael Moneo
Drawing, Building, Models
5 Copy quote
 I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry,

literature - this speculative attitude toward life.
Rafael Moneo
 I make a project and I panic. Which is good, it can be a method. First,

panic. Second, conquer panic by working. Third, find ways to solve your
doubts.
Eduardo Souto de Moura
Doubt, Panic, Way
55 Copy quote
 There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no

sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are
always problems we must not neglect. For example, energy, resources,
costs, social aspects - one must always pay attention to all these.
Intelligent, Energy, Example
28 Copy quote
 Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to

a piece of paper.
Drawing, Pieces, World
Eduardo Souto de Moura (2005). “Eduardo Souto de Moura: 1995-2005 : la naturalidad
de las cosas”
 Art is the only place you can do what you like. That's freedom.
Paula Rego
Art, Design, Can Do
60 Copy quote
 If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In
fact, you end becoming quite fond of them.
Paula Rego
Facts, Becoming, Ends
19 Copy quote
 We interpret the world through stories... everybody makes in their own

way sense of things, but if you have stories it helps.
Paula Rego
Way, Stories, World
13 Copy quote
 I get inspiration from things that have nothing to do with painting:

caricature, items from newspapers, sights in the street, proverbs,
nursery-rhymes, children's games and songs, nightmares, desires,
terrors. ... That question [why do you paint?] has been put to me before
and my answer was, 'To give terror a face.' But it's more than that. I paint
because I can't help it.
Paula Rego
Song, Art, Children
John McEwen, Paula Rego (1992). “Paula Rego”
18 Copy quote
 Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is
always good even if it's for the worse.
Paula Rego
Change, Mother, Used
18 Copy quote

 To find one's way anywhere one has to find one's door, just like Alice,
you see. You take too much of one thing and you get too big, then you
take too much of another and you get too small. You've got to find your
own doorway into things.
Paula Rego
Discovery, Doors, Doorways
16 Copy quote
 Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding
things out through doing them.
Paula Rego
Drawing, Vitality, Painting
10 Copy quote
 To be a dog woman is not necessarily to be downtrodden; that has very

little to do with it. In these pictures every woman's a dog woman, not
downtrodden, but powerful. To be bestial is good. It's physical. Eating,
snarling, all activities to do with sensation are positive. To picture a
woman as a dog is utterly believable.
Paula Rego
Dog, Powerful, Littles
14 Copy quote
 Poetry is good for unleashing images.

Paula Rego
Poetry, Unleashing, Poetry Is
6 Copy quote
 The gaps between the forms worry me. I can never get these spaces
right.
Paula Rego
Space, Worry, Gaps
6 Copy quote
 I'm not fashionable at all, and the fact that I manage to sell pictures
without being fashionable is thanks to my gallery.
Paula Rego
Facts, Thanks, Selling
6 Copy quote
 Another thing that escapes me is HOW to give substance to the forms.

One day they look solid and 'real' and they seem to hinge upon each
other and splinter and creak, fall with a thud to the bottom of the canvas
and drag across the surface, and the next day they are like dust, all
lightweight and just stuck there.
Paula Rego
Real, Fall, Dust
7 Copy quote
 I thought the only way you can get into things is... through the
basement... exactly where my studio was ... I could creep upstairs and
snatch at things, and bring them down with me... where I could munch
away at them.
Paula Rego
Way, Creeps, Upstairs
6 Copy quote
 In collage you're doing it in stages so you're not actually doing it right

there. You first of all draw it on the paper, then you cut it up, then you
paste it down, then you change it, then you shove it about, then you may
paint bits of it over, so actually you're not making the picture there and
then, you're making it through a process, so it's not so spontaneous.
Paula Rego
Cutting, Firsts, Paper
3 Copy quote
 That is why my pictures don't look like modern art. It's some sort of
timidity on my part I'm sure.
Paula Rego
Art, Looks, Modern
 The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend
on it.
David Chipperfield
Differences, Architecture, Good And Bad
"David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home". Interview with Rowan
Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2011.
49 Copy quote
 There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look

like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means
something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.
David Chipperfield
Badass, Mean, Bad Ass
21 Copy quote
 I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience
of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would
really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the
right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
David Chipperfield
Thinking, Mirrors, People
"'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan
Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.
12 Copy quote
 A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good.

You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's
ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.
David Chipperfield
Levels, Ridiculous, Architecture
10 Copy quote
 I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as

possible, although we're all creatures of our age.
David Chipperfield
Age, Trying, Architecture
"David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey,
www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.
8 Copy quote
 It is difficult to separate oneself from one's design moralities.

David Chipperfield
Design, Morality, Difficult
3 Copy quote
 Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a
bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the
books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do
is connected.
David Chipperfield
Children, Believe, Book
"Inside the homes of our star architects". Interview with Rachel Cooke,
www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2012.
7 Copy quote
 Often architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look
different. It’s like we’re actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts
at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.
David Chipperfield
Trying, Different, Looks
7 Copy quote
 I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and
have maintained some position of integrity.
David Chipperfield
Integrity, Interesting, May
7 Copy quote
 I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a
wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between
architects, conservationists, curators, client, politicians, the media, and
the public. Discussions, even when difficult, were always about ideas.
Ideas matter to Germans. They're a reflective people. That's attractive.
David Chipperfield
Real, Museums, Media
"David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonatahan Glancey,
9 Copy quote
 We see buildings in Britain mostly as freestanding objects. They are not

meant to have a dialogue with anything around them, or with history, or
with ideas of any kind beyond the self-referential. What we call
'regeneration' is largely an excuse for building for maximum profit with a
bit of sculptural design thrown in to catch the eye of the media.
David Chipperfield
Eye, Self, Media
"In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most" by Jonathan Glancey,
www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.
11 Copy quote
 I do very little industrial design. I'm asked a lot, but I certainly don't see
myself as an industrial designer.
David Chipperfield
Design, Littles, Designer
3 Copy quote
 I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years
and costs millions be radical?
David Chipperfield
Thinking, Years, Cost
"David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore,
www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.
6 Copy quote
 Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself
either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at
least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.
David Chipperfield
Interesting, Balls, Architecture
"David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore,
3 Copy quote
 You don't restore 'The Last Supper' by filling in the missing bits - you
preserve. You accept the material that has somehow survived.
David Chipperfield
Missing, Filling In, Lasts
9 Copy quote
 Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if

ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
David Chipperfield
Ideas, Historical, Criticism
"David Chipperfield: perfect harmony". Interview with Jonathan Glancey,
7 Copy quote
 It used to be presumed that if you weren't at your desk working, you
weren't working. But we said, why can't we make a workplace where
casual meetings are as important as working at your desk? Sometimes
that's where your better creative work happens.
David Chipperfield
Creative, Important, Workplace
"Box clever". Interview with Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2007.
3 Copy quote
 Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we

don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it and the architect isn’t
trusted.
David Chipperfield
Want, Pay, Architecture
6 Copy quote
 I do quite like Gehry's Guggenheim. But where in Bilbao it's seen as an

outgrowth of years of investment in urban design and engineering, in
Britain it's seen as the catalyst for urban regeneration rather than the
icing on the cake.
David Chipperfield
Engineering, Years, Cake
"'In Britain, money and marketing are what matter most'". Interview with Jonathan
Glancey, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.
3 Copy quote
 Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on
the cheap.
David Chipperfield
Architecture, Britain, Lasting
3 Copy quote
 I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a PhD in

comparative literature so we have a lot of her Spanish and German
literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books
on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art
magazine called FMR, so we have a common interest in design.
David Chipperfield
Art, Book, Wife
"My space". Interview with Andy Barker, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.
3 Copy quote
 If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple,
but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are
inspirational.
David Chipperfield
Simple, Quality, Looks
"David Chipperfield: perfect harmony" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com.
February 3, 2010.
3 Copy quote
 I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives,

brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
David Chipperfield
Ideas, Luxury, Acting
3 Copy quote
 In Britain, we've tended to replace the kind of architectural culture valued

in much of Europe with an in-flight magazine lifestyle - all branding,
marketing and 'accessibility', a word that usually means dumbing-down.
David Chipperfield
Mean, Europe, Marketing
"David Chipperfield: perfect harmony" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com.
February 3, 2010.
3 Copy quote
 The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts

us.
Peter Eisenman
Comforting, Architecture, Remember
82 Copy quote
 I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture
are people who take risks and write to tell about it.
Peter Eisenman
Believe, Hero, Writing
33 Copy quote
 Architecture is definitely a political act.

Peter Eisenman
Political, Architecture
25 Copy quote
 The best clients in the world are the people who cause you to struggle.
Peter Eisenman
Struggle, People, World
23 Copy quote
 I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is
very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for
other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.
Peter Eisenman
Art, People, Design
34 Copy quote
 If you want to show a picture, just show it - don't spend too much time
arranging it.
Peter Eisenman
Want, Too Much, Shows
28 Copy quote
 I am not a finisher, I am a starter. And I am always thinking, what is the

next project.
Peter Eisenman
Thinking, Next, Projects
18 Copy quote
 Architects design houses. I live in a home.

Peter Eisenman
Home, House, Design
22 Copy quote
 The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce

endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
Peter Eisenman
Choices, Variation, Algorithms
19 Copy quote
 The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made
in architecture.
Peter Eisenman
Needs, Architecture, Compromise
"Which are the world's ugliest buildings?" by Jonathan Morrison, www.theguardian.com.
July 21, 2008.
24 Copy quote
 I don't believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people

anymore. They say: 'So what else is new?'
Peter Eisenman
Believe, People, Architecture
23 Copy quote
 I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe
in it as a concept.
Peter Eisenman
Believe, Ideas, House
"Feuds? I've had a few" by Deyan Sudjic, www.theguardian.com. December 18,
2004.
18 Copy quote
 The world is too full of information.

Peter Eisenman
World, Information
11 Copy quote
 I am very different as a parent to new kids. My work changed from being

rooted in the sky to being rooted in the earth.
Peter Eisenman
Kids, Sky, Parent
18 Copy quote
 I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

Peter Eisenman
Teaching, Office, Architecture
10 Copy quote
 You cannot live with guilt.

Peter Eisenman
Guilt
9 Copy quote
 Stop making me feel good. If you are anti-Semitic, fine. If you don't like
me personally, fine. But deal with me as an individual, not as a Jew.
Peter Eisenman
Feel Good, Individual, Don't Like Me
10 Copy quote
 I don't know how to use appliances. I mean, I use the coffee maker. But
that's it.
Peter Eisenman
Coffee, Mean, Use
9 Copy quote
 When looking at Germans, I have never felt a sense that they are guilty.
I have encountered anti-Semitism in the United States as well.
Peter Eisenman
United States, Guilty, Wells
6 Copy quote
 I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from
the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind of humor.
Peter Eisenman
Self, Fans, Kind
8 Copy quote
 My wife has her stuff and her taste, and I have my stuff and my taste.
Peter Eisenman
Wife, Stuff, Taste
7 Copy quote
 Endings are like, I always say, like a women's pregnancy. When she has
a child, she is happy to have the child, but there is a thing called
postpartum depression, that is that she is no longer carrying the baby.
Peter Eisenman
Baby, Children, Pregnancy
9 Copy quote
 Clearly the anti-Semitism in Germany in the 1930s went overboard and it

was clearly a terrible moment in history.
Peter Eisenman
Germany, Moments, Overboard
 My favorite project is always the next one.

Michael Graves
Work, Design, Next
57 Copy quote
 Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it
is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
Michael Graves
Design, Architecture, Affair
42 Copy quote
 If I have a style, I am not aware of it.

Michael Graves
Style, Architecture, Ifs
38 Copy quote
 In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function

and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
Architecture, Function, Equity
22 Copy quote
 Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can

start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.
Michael Graves
Design, Stories, Narrative
19 Copy quote
 The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban
context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's
associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical
three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head.
Michael Graves
Order, Design, Quality
21 Copy quote
 I once got a postcard from a French poet who wrote - "you don't know
me but I'm always very grumpy when I get up in morning. But when I get
up now I put the tea kettle on, and when it starts to sing it makes me
smile - goddamn you!" That's what happened when we first designed it -
we got a lot of mail.
Michael Graves
Morning, Tea, Mail
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 I stayed true to what I thought was good design no matter who it was for.
Michael Graves
Design, Matter, Good Design
Source: www.bloomberg.com
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 I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

Michael Graves
Style, Requirements, Architecture
19 Copy quote
 I've always believed that what can make a domestic setting truly home is
the infusion of a cultural dimension.
Michael Graves
Home, Dimensions, Infusion
15 Copy quote
 I don't care what people call me, labels have the negative value of
making smaller boundaries for people.
Michael Graves
People, Negative, Labels
11 Copy quote
 In designing hardware to be used every day, it was important to keep

both the human aspects and the machine in mind. What looks good also
often feels good
Michael Graves
Good Day, Design, Feel Good
87 Copy quote
 I learned in architecture that you have to have a real plan. You have to
have a client, they have to have distribution, start-up money, and have a
vision of where it's going to go. All this has to be settled before you start,
or else your work is just a story.
Michael Graves
Real, Vision, Stories
15 Copy quote
 I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis,
so something good came from this.
Michael Graves
Health, Nuts, Care
17 Copy quote
 The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of
architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to
everyone.
Michael Graves
Design, Roles, Target
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 It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted
much of my career to this
Michael Graves
Careers, Goal, Design
11 Copy quote
 I don't believe in morality in architecture.

Michael Graves
Believe, Morality, Architecture
10 Copy quote
 In America, writers are afforded the freedom to express themselves in

unlimited manners. Creative liberty is a privilege.
Michael Graves
America, Creative, Liberty
9 Copy quote
 Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is

successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment
when someone wants another one.
Michael Graves
Successful, House, Want
8 Copy quote
 I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you
do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not
necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should
write to Target, not me.
Michael Graves
Writing, Design, Magic
9 Copy quote
 My favorite is the garlic press. I think it's beautiful as an object. But the
awkward part of it all is that I don't use it much because I'm allergic to
garlic.
Michael Graves
Beautiful, Thinking, Awkward
6 Copy quote
 The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea
of truth.
Michael Graves
Ideas, Long, Architecture
8 Copy quote
 I know that's not something that people like to do - identify a favorite. But
I do.
Michael Graves
People, Knows
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 Alberto Alessi had asked a dozen architects to design a sterling silver

tea service - with a teapot, a coffee pot, sugar, creamer, a spoon, and a
tray. Our brief was that it didn't matter if it didn't work and cost wasn't the
issue. It was a promotional project, not a commercial enterprise, and
was going to be showcased in museums. And the coffee and tea piazza,
as mine was called, received a great response. It was wonderful to walk
into the Whitney museum and see all these objects on the first floor.
Michael Graves
Coffee, Issues, Museums
 The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any
conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building
a house, you're talking about dreams.
Robert A. M. Stern
Dream, Talking, House
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 To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally

understood language of form.
Robert A. M. Stern
Voice, Language, Individual
Robert A. M. Stern (1986). “Buildings and projects, 1981-1985”, Rizzoli International
Publications
11 Copy quote
 The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the
present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our other arts-indeed,
as in our political and social culture as a whole-ours has been a struggle
to formulate and sustain a usable past.
Robert A. M. Stern
Dream, Art, Struggle
Robert A. M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, Raymond W. Gastil (1986). “Pride of Place:
Building the American Dream”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
10 Copy quote
 Buildings should not look like Lady Gaga.

Robert A. M. Stern
Looks, Building, Should
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 Communities of tract houses, plopped on a grid, represent a way of

throwing historical forms around like bouillabaisse.
Robert A. M. Stern
House, Community, Historical
6 Copy quote
 My cat speaks sign language with her tail.

Robert A. M. Stern
Cat, Animal, Humanity
50 Copy quote
 That was the shocking part. Here we were in the midst of everything and
this potentially giant story was being told and virtually noone was there.
Robert A. M. Stern
Nfl, Giants, Stories
 Construction is a matter of optimism; its a matter of facing the future with

confidence.
Cesar Pelli
Optimism, Matter, Construction
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 The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.
Cesar Pelli
Running, Badass, Bad Ass
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 I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest
and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You
cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.
Cesar Pelli
Strong, Moving, Past
6 Copy quote
 I see my buildings as pieces of cities, and in my designs I try to make

them into responsible and contributing citizens.
Cesar Pelli
Cities, Design, Trying
César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr
8 Copy quote
 My buildings are like my children, so I cannot have favorites.

Cesar Pelli
Children, My Children, Building
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
 I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from
a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it. I believe my responsibilities as
an architect are to design the most appropriate building for the place.
Each place has a distinct culture and function, which for me requires an
appropriate answer.
Cesar Pelli
Believe, Responsibility, Practice
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 I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful
things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to
design.
Cesar Pelli
Design, Looks, Next
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 When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it.
I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.
Cesar Pelli
School, Design, Knack
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 Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I

believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations
to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many.
Cesar Pelli
Believe, Opportunity, Play
César Pelli (1999). “Observations for young architects”, Monacelli Pr
5 Copy quote
 One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new:
both new ideas and new people.
Cesar Pelli
Ideas, America, People
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 The Connecticut Center for Science and Exploration will be a building

that will connect the excitement of science to the surrounding streets,
river and highway. These forms are ambitious and dynamic. They
appear to reach out beyond their physical limits.
Cesar Pelli
Rivers, Ambitious, Limits
6 Copy quote
 The World Trade Center was for me not only out of scale vertically, but it
was also out of scale in plan. It occupied several blocks that were all
massed together.
Cesar Pelli
Block, Together, World
6 Copy quote
 There may be some changes in building codes, but I don't see any
stylistic departure that you'll be able to attribute to Sept. 11.
Cesar Pelli
Departure, May, Able
3 Copy quote
 When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to
choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a
liberal arts education.
Cesar Pelli
Art, School, Careers
 Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on
buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are
the reflection of society.
I. M. Pei
Life, Eye, Reflection
1989 Les Grands desseins du Louvre (with E J Biasini).
208 Copy quote
 I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be

built on a foundation of necessity.
I. M. Pei
Art, Believe, Foundation
I. M. Pei (1983). “The Pritzker Architecture Prize, 1983: Presented to Ieoh Ming Pei”
162 Copy quote
 Success is a collection of problems solved.

I. M. Pei
Problem, Collections
108 Copy quote
 Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

I. M. Pei
Mirrors, Architecture, Life Is
87 Copy quote
 Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There

is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that
time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the
beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
I. M. Pei
Times Have Changed, Roots, Want
112 Copy quote
 Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
I. M. Pei
Opportunity, Worry, Missed Opportunity
84 Copy quote
 I want to bring out the best in a community and contribute something of

permanent value.
I. M. Pei
Community, Want, Permanent
76 Copy quote
 It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client.

Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in
the abstract
I. M. Pei
Clients, Architecture, Individual
85 Copy quote
 You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing
for.
I. M. Pei
Knowing, Design
Source: archtalks.com
48 Copy quote
 Be the best, not necessarily the original.

I. M. Pei
Being The Best, Originals
39 Copy quote
 Design is something you have to put your hand to.

I. M. Pei
Hands, Design
60 Copy quote
 Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

I. M. Pei
Age
1978 Quoted byJCarter Brown, Director, National Gallery of Art, Washington, in
theWashington Post, 27 Aug1995. On his design for the gallery's East Building which
was soaring to an unbudgeted cost of $94.4m.
48 Copy quote
 Great artists need great clients.

I. M. Pei
Artist, Needs, Clients
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
51 Copy quote
 I didn't want to think about a project that I couldn't finish. That's a kind of
temptation. One has to realize one's limitations. Why kid yourself?
I. M. Pei
Kids, Thinking, Temptation
38 Copy quote
 François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of

research before he called me. He said, "You did something special at the
National Gallery of Art in Washington - you brought the new and the old
together." But John Russell Pope finished the West Building in 1941, so
when the East Building opened it was only about 40 years old. But the
Louvre is 800 years old! A much bigger design challenge.
I. M. Pei
Art, Years, Design
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 I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor
Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when
I work.
I. M. Pei
Piano Music, Listening, Mahler
I. M. Pei, Gero von Boehm (2000). “Conversations with I. M. Pei: Light is the Key”,
Prestel Pub
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 I was born in Suzhou, a city not very far from Shanghai. It's a very
interesting town - there is a long artist's tradition there, especially during
the Ming and Ching dynasties, which produced many, many scholars
and painters and so forth. That's where my family lived for 600, 700
years.
I. M. Pei
Artist, Years, Cities
29 Copy quote
 I haven't taken any new projects in the past years - I told myself, if I
cannot live long enough to finish it, I don't want it.
I. M. Pei
Taken, Past, Years
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 I know something about the civilization of China, with my background,

obviously, and I think I know something about American history. But
that's about all. And I've traveled all over the world, and for a long time I
didn't know very much about it, really.
I. M. Pei
Thinking, Civilization, Long
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 At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the
mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more,
my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many
times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it
turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the
same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about
Islamic architecture.
I. M. Pei
Islamic, Eye, Egypt
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 Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw
on the history of the country; its history is really just being a desert. But I
thought, the one thing I must learn about for this project is the Islamic
faith. So I read about Islam and Islamic architecture, and the more I
studied the more I realized where the best Islamic buildings were.
I. M. Pei
Country, Islamic, Qatar
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 When I got the opportunity to do the new wing [the Schauhaus] for the
German Historical Museum, for instance, I didn't see it as an opportunity
for my own ego, to do something so exciting that every architectural
publication would want to put it on the cover. I accepted it because I
knew it was going to be a very difficult project, and I wasn't sure I could
do something exciting there.
I. M. Pei
Opportunity, Museums, Wings
23 Copy quote
 Luxembourg was and still is today a crossroads, the place where

Germany meets the rest of Europe. The country lost part of its territory to
Belgium in the 1800s, and during World Wars I and II the German
military overran it. Very few people have visited Luxembourg - when I
went there and looked at it, I said, my God, it's built on a rock. And within
the rock they had a castle, and within the city there's a network of
tunnels so the residents could move around and defend themselves.
That was of great interest to me.
I. M. Pei
Country, Military, War
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 I've been active all my life. In 1990 I retired from my firm, I.M. Pei &
Partners, and for two years I didn't do much. Then I started to get kind of
antsy, so I decided, I'm going to do some more work. And I chose to do
work outside the U.S. because I've spent 45 years here and I wanted to
learn more about what's happening in the rest of the world.
I. M. Pei
Years, Two, Work Out
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 Many of the projects I'm most proud of are tall buildings, especially the
housing projects. In New York I have two: one in Kips Bay and one at
New York University. At that time, those projects were most challenging.
I. M. Pei
 On a daily basis, my home life is very simple. I spend about 2 hours

every morning reading the newspaper. As my two assistants will tell you,
I don't come to work in the mornings, for two reasons. First, I want to be
informed - that means I go through The New York Times every day, and
then I watch some news on television. The second is, mornings are the
best time to communicate with my clients abroad.
I. M. Pei
Morning, New York, Reading
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 My projects have typically taken a long time to complete. Buildings might

take on average about five to seven years to finish, but in my case it's
been longer, because the projects I have accepted within the past 15
years have been mostly government projects, and those involve some
politics and funding issues, and approvals and so forth. So they're
slower.
I. M. Pei
Taken, Past, Government
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 I travel to the Middle East, I travel to China, I travel to Europe. It's all very
rewarding - the only problem is the travel is getting more and more
difficult for me now. Ten years ago I would have enjoyed it a lot more.
I. M. Pei
Years, Europe, Middle East
12 Copy quote
 At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I
have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I
adore them.
I. M. Pei
Children, Home, Weekend
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 For Kips Bay, I had a wonderful client, William Zeckendorf, who was
willing to gamble with me on using concrete and not brick for a high-rise
apartment building. That was very innovative at the time.
I. M. Pei
 Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and
humanity.
Kenzo Tange
Heart, Technology, Creative
24 Copy quote
 Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

Kenzo Tange
Vitality, Architect, Inconsistency
23 Copy quote
 In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for
buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.
Kenzo Tange
Demand, Architecture, Emotion
18 Copy quote
 We live in a world where great incompatibles co-exist: the human scale

and the superhuman scale, stability and mobility, permanence and
change, identity and anonymity, comprehensibility and universality.
Kenzo Tange
Identity, Mobility, World
14 Copy quote
 Nevertheless, the basic forms, spaces, and appearances must be logical
Kenzo Tange
Space, Appearance, Logical
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
 Tradition can, to be sure, participate in a creation, but it can no longer be
creative itself.
Kenzo Tange
Creative, Tradition, Creation
Kenzō Tange (1970). “Kenzo Tange, 1946-1969; Architecture and Urban Design”
9 Copy quote
 I like to think there is something deep in our own world of reality that will
create a dynamic balance between technology and human existence,
the relationship between which has a decisive effect on contemporary
cultural forms and social structure.
Kenzo Tange
Technology, Reality, Thinking
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 Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long.

Kenzo Tange
Long, Design, Arbitrary
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 Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as

no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the
future.
Kenzo Tange
Design, Today, Ordinary
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 There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture
must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a
powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have
something that appeals to the human heart
Kenzo Tange
Powerful, Heart, Mean
25 Copy quote
 I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to
contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban
planning
Kenzo Tange
Special, Development, Urban
6 Copy quote
 Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and

cities in the informational society.
Kenzo Tange
Cities, Architecture, Consideration
10 Copy quote
 I am aware of changes gradually taking place in my own designs as part

of my thinking on this matter
Kenzo Tange
Thinking, Design, Matter
5 Copy quote
 I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's

designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.
Kenzo Tange
 I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human

beings
Toyo Ito
Thinking, Pieces, Architecture
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 Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it

and use a language that everyone can understand.
Toyo Ito
Needs, Use, Architecture
"Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com.
March 18, 2013.
41 Copy quote
 We have to base architecture on the environment.

Toyo Ito
Architecture, Environment
"Japanese architect awarded the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize". www.foxnews.com.
March 18, 2013.
23 Copy quote
 I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live
in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in
every single city.
Toyo Ito
Cities, People, Community
19 Copy quote
 I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with

elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality.
Toyo Ito
Giving, Trying, Quality
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
 I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my
works.
Toyo Ito
Style, Satisfied
"2013 Pritzker Prize: Toyo Ito". Article by Vanessa Quirk, www.archdaily.com. March
19, 2013.
9 Copy quote
 Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities
have become more isolated than ever.
Toyo Ito
Cities, People, World
15 Copy quote
 Children don't run around outside as much as they did. They sit in front
of computer games.
Toyo Ito
Running, Children, Games
"Japanese architect on brink of stardom" by Nicolai Ouroussoff, www.sfgate.com. July
26, 2009.
11 Copy quote
 The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s. The

economy collapsed, and so did the optimism of the Metabolists.
Toyo Ito
Dream, Optimism, Economy

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“The house is a machine for living in.”

“Design has killed architecture.

“Una nueva sociedad crea su hogar, ese receptáculo de la vida.”

Together Children Beautiful

You Me Heart Beautiful Art I

Together Children Beautiful

Life Never Will Living

The house is a machine for living in.

Life Nature Heart

Heart Music Soul

The present moment is creative, creating with an unheard-of intensity.

The home should be the treasure chest of living.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Life Home Living

#Pain #Cutting #Loss

#Art #Badass #Bad Ass

#Journey #Artist #Space

“To fly we have to have resistance.”

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Encouragement

#Creativity #Writing #Thinking

“I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.”

#Play #World #Made

“All my work is much more peaceful than I am.”

#Love #Peace #Peaceful

#Brother #Differentiation #Gender

#College #Parent #Want

#Fun #School #Worry

#Teacher #School #Blow

#Thinking #Creating #People

#Art #Thinking #Serendipity

#Bad Ass #Architecture #Fantastic

#Past #Order #Names

#Cutting #Men #Air

#Parent #Chinese #Eras

#Ideas #Mind #Of My Mind

#War #Definitions #Modern

#Art #Rip #Crazy

#School #Kids #Class

#Art #Fields #Architecture

#War #Artist #Memorial

#Bad Ass #Architecture #Starting

#Art #Architecture #Feds

#Beautiful #Years #Cities

#Art #Mean #Technology

#Dream #Architect #Wells

“A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.”

#Piano #Discipline #Trouble

#Fighting #Bad Ass #Ideas

#Men #House #Architect

#Light #Giving #Quality

#Knowing #Hands #Goal

#Criticism #Architecture #Harmony

#Art #Italian #Lunch

#Space #Parks #Empty

#Childhood #Way #Remember

#Littles #Doe #Draws

#Years #Islands #Sailing

#Art #Writing #Past

#Art #People #Design

 Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's

 Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

 Find optimism in the inevitable.