“Architecture Does Not Desire to Be Functional; It Wants to Be Opportune.”
– Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Read More“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.”
– Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Read More“The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation.”
– Paulo Mendes da Rocha
Read More“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
Read More“Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Read More“We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity”
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Read More“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about its beauty, I just think about how to solve the problem, but when I finish it, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong.”
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
Read More“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners”
- Antonio Gaudi
Read More“A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright
Read More“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.”
– Daniel Libeskind
Read More"Architecture is a way of thinking about the world very similar in structure to writing a book, since both disciplines represent the same field and domain"
- Rem Koolhaas
Read More“The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it”
- David Chipperfield
Read More“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.”
Read More“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.”
– Norman Foster
Read More“When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it’s wrong.”
– Buckminster Fuller
Read More“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
– Le Corbusier
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