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Here are 20 thoughtful architecture quotes from master architects.
Its based on wonder.
It makes sense that this architect considers the wonder architecture can inspire.
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David Adjaye
David Adjaye has certainly designed some emotive structures.
His architecture is often understood to be incredibly sensitive to local context and easily appreciated by many.
Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown is an influential architect and planner who also worked closely with Robert Venturi.
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Frank Gehry
Frank Gehrys work certainly feels timeless.
His iconic style is considereddeconstructivismand features a collection of crumpled building materials that comes together in a functional sculpture.
This quote is some great insight into the intentions of this master architect.
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Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is one of the best-known architects to have ever lived.
He developed the first American style of architecture, thePrairie styleand has created many treasured works.
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Wright treasured art and considered it the mother of architecture.
I. M. Pei
It is difficult not to connect this beautiful quote from I.M.
Pei to one of his most famous projectstheLouvre Pyramid, orPyramide du Louvre.
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Pei created many works that act as the reflection of society.
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Good ideas come from everywhere.
Its more important to recognize a good idea than to author it.
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Studio Gangs work often features impressive responses to local conditions including questions of sustainability.
Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.
Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange was an influential architect and urbanist who greatly influenced theMetabolistmovement.
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Space and light and order.
Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier
Le Corbusier is one of the most famous architects who has ever lived.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci needs no lengthy introduction.
He was a painter, sculptor, architect, craftsman, and engineer whose work represents theRenaissance.
Louis Kahn
Louis Kahn was an influential modernist architect who created incredibly monumental and beautiful buildings.
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His quote about sunlight in architecture is a perfect example of this.
It represents much of what modernists like Mies van der Rohe sought to express in their architecture.
But when Ive finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know its wrong.
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R. Buckminster Fuller
Richard Buckminster Fuller was an architect and futurist who pursued incredible feats of structure.
Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas quote is particularly good advice for designers.
Koolhaas is a master architect and his firm,OMA, has created countless iconic designs.
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He certainly would know that the architects intention does not match the way people will use it.
Renzo Piano
Renzo Piano was an Italian architect best known for theCentre Georges Pompidouwhich he designed with Richard Rogers.
His quote recognizes that each new work is an opportunity to reinvent new solutions.
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He uses natural forceslike sunlight and windas the main actors in his design.
Her words of advice might help you to test out bold, new ideas.
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