corb

mies?

has steph you are right

who said this:
"I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience."

neutra

Who said this:

"An architect is said to be a man who knows a very little about a great deal and keeps knowing less and less about more and more until he knows practically nothing about everything.

Whereas on the other hand, an engineer is a man who knows a great deal about very little and who goes along knowing more and more about less and less until finally he knows practically everything about nothing.

A contractor starts out knowing practically everything about everything, but ends up knowing nothing about nothing, due to his association with architects and engineers."

Found this in one of the many (crap) books from university, it has " " but no name, like to figure out who said this, guess it wasn't a woman ;)

who had a boat called 'Nemo propheta in patria'?

unknown

Who said:

"The car is the greatest problem for architecture."

according to google it's gropius

Countering the rising phenomenon of people turning to DIY magazines and interior improvements, an architect/industrial design once said this,

"A good house is far more than the sum of its working parts,..."

Sounds like something we should all memorize when we meet clients.

Who said this?

One of my favourite definitions:

"When walking in the forest you come upon a rise in the ground that measures the size of a man...you hesitate...that is architecture"

Who said it?

loos in arkitektur.

who said "I hid in a tiny cell, entombed like the dead Medici above, though hiding from a live one. To forget my fears, I fill the walls with drawings." ?

Michelangelo Buonarroti

An argument for 'Theory', from last night's lecture by Alberto Perez-Gomez:

"Some look for meaning in their religion, their spiritual life. The nurturing of meaning in architectural practice, in your projects, can give meaning to a life in architecture."

And...
"We're expending a lot of time and energy developing more and more efficient MEANS, but we give very little time for critical examination of the ENDS."

"I can't complain. I was never ill, I was never operated on, my friends are still friends. I like women, I like to laugh, drink wine, say foolish things," ........ said, dressed casually on a recent morning in khakis and an open yellow shirt.

"I am a person like any other. I was thrown onto the planet, I will tell my short story, and, as with all others, time will erase it. It's enough to look at the sky to see how small we are," ........said. "But Lenin said it was necessary to dream. If not, things don't happen."

......... is who?

Wright?

"Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes."

who?

medit, oscar niemeyer said those. there is an article on him in today's los angeles times with a beautiful picture of his art museum in rio.
97 y.o. he also said " it's incredible that a country the size of a continent doesn't have a piece of land for every brazilian'.

Another for the geeks! Guess who?

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

oh niemeyer... amazing that he's 97 and still working (or he was until recently).

no one knows who "tattoed" his boat with the words "Nemo Propheta in Patria"?



it's easy, he's usually the first book in your alphabetically-ordered collection of architect's biographies..

aalto?

exactly! .. No-one is a prophet in their own land

i like this game.

“among all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote, the Daguerrotype. It’s a most blessed invention, that’s what it is. I have been walking all over St. Mark’s palace today, and found a lot of things in the Daguerrotype that I never had noticed in the palace itself. It is such a happy thing to be able to depend on everything – to be sure not only that the painter is perfectly honest, but that he can’t make a mistake. I have got the Palazzo Foscari to its last brick, and booked St. Mark’s up, down and round about.”

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who, according to legend, at their reception of an award from the AIA called them "The arbritary institute of appearances"?

so i cheated..but i was interested in knowing and couldn't wait..
agfa8x...it's ruskin...evilplatypus...it's FLW

how bout this one:
I want to see things. I don't trust anything else. I place things in front of me on paper so that I can see them. I want to see therefore I draw.

another one:

Is the brick the architect’s letter or alphabet?. . .

quess ?

is that in English ?

"We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims."

"A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality"

Another From The Same:

"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"

martin heidegger said this,
"If only our totally superficial culture of today, which loves rapid change, could visualize the future by learning to look more closely at the past! This rage for innovation that collapses foundations, this foolish negligence of the deep spiritual content in life and art, this modern concept of life as a rapid sequence of instant pleasures, ... so many signs of decadence, a sad denial of health and of the transcendent character of life."

but, who drew this?

''If it doesn't fit, you must acquit''
Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., 1937-2005