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Lets hear the best Architectural Quotes

 
Sep 24, 04 8:48 pm
gustav

"the most important thing for me is to cull my detractors"
Eisenman, 1978 (House # whatever)

Sep 24, 04 10:08 pm  · 
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le bossman

it would be interesting if the archinect people would compile a coffee table book of things people say on this site

Sep 25, 04 11:38 pm  · 
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David Cuthbert

"the office as a vision of mad architect modelling the body and the soul." <- mad architect

Sep 27, 04 8:21 am  · 
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THREADS

"hay kid...don't you know there aint no money in architecture?"

"schools don't teach ya how the real world is...it's not all design...el I haven't even sketched anything in 16 years"

"Yeah I could of gone to Yale but I that ivey crap isn't for me"

"I only date architects"

"I never date architects"

"juxtapose"

"I what's most interesting about your project is that it straddles the fine line between the sublime and the real...and when I say 'real' I'm expressing it with a capital R."


"So your an architect hu? You gonna design my house for free? HAHAHA"

Sep 28, 04 12:42 am  · 
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e909
an architect can only advise his clients to

hire a landscape architect to tell someone else how to plant vines?

"i never date sea cucumbers"

http://www.shme.com/dish/dish085.htm

Sep 28, 04 1:16 am  · 
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gustav

"Son, it's not about being Good, it's about being Lucky."
"If you can't be lucky, the most important thing is to be able to Trick people."

All the above are simply subtopics of these two statements.


If you want the real quote,
"It is about the dethroning the ego in the spirit of Love, Understanding, and Compassion."

Sep 28, 04 9:06 am  · 
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archiphreak

"all architects are prostitutes"...HAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!

Sep 30, 04 10:05 am  · 
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rutger

"less is more"
Mies

"less is a bore"
Some post modernist (who??)

"I am a whore"
Philip Johnson

Sep 30, 04 10:43 am  · 
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Dazed and Confused

"GOD, OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, somehow chose ME out of all the ARCHITECTS to do the crap you see about you"
Philip Johnson in Crystal Palace on Hour of Power (I paraphrase)

Sep 30, 04 11:39 pm  · 
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abracadabra

from a student to rem kolhaas,
"do you like frank gehry?"
rem,
"he is a super freak."

Oct 1, 04 12:09 am  · 
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aeaa

"let's ice box this fucker"

Oct 1, 04 4:12 pm  · 
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.dwg

'architecture is the only place where conception comes before erection.'

Oct 2, 04 3:08 am  · 
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vorak

ERGONOMICS - THE STUDY OF MAKING SURE THAT WHEN YOU SPLASH YOURSELF AT A SINK, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU WET YOURSELF

Oct 2, 04 6:45 am  · 
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vorak

"So your an architect hu? You gonna design my house for free?"

Best quote here

Oct 2, 04 6:48 am  · 
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cracker

bump

Oct 13, 04 1:20 am  · 
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