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Quotes collects short texts by architects and thinkers published on ArchEyes, from Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn to Tadao Ando, Kenzo Tange, Robert Venturi, Rem Koolhaas, Frank Gehry and Peter Zumthor. Each quote opens a window onto a way of thinking about light, time, ruins, the city and the role of the architect, and many link to case studies of the buildings in which those ideas were tested.
Architectural procedures must be reinvented, not so that people can acquire more and more expertise, but so that they will take the initiative to install themselves within a manifold, unassimilable…
Architecture has always reflected the society and culture that creates it, serving as a visual representation of our values, beliefs, and aspirations. However, not all architecture is created equal, and…
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I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. – Tadao Ando
Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness. – Frank Gehry
Yona Friedman, the Hungarian-born French architect, urban planner and designer who helped develop the concept of “mobile architecture” in the 1960s and 70s, has passed away at age 96. In…
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Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light…
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
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…
I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function. – Robert Venturi2 Photograph: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott…
A city is the place of availabilities. It is the place where a small boy, as he walks through it, may see something that will tell him what he wants…
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…
And suddenly there’s an interior and an exterior. One can be Inside or outside. Brilliant! And that means – equally brilliant! – this: thresholds, crossings, the tiny loop-hole door, the almost imperceptible transition between the inside and…
When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium, and that’s why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For…
I think that everybody, in our day-to-day jobs, needs to stop thinking so much about seeking immediate gain. Instead, we need to focus on the distant future – a society…
