#architect

...pseudo-scientific minds, like those of the scientist or the painter in love with the pictorial, both teaching as they were taught to become architects, practice a kind of building which is inevitably the result of conditioning of the mind instead of enlightenment. By this standard means also, the old conformities are appearing as new but only in another guise, more insidious because they are especially convenient to the standardizations of the modernist plan-factory and wholly ignorant of anything but public expediency. So in our big cities architecture like religion is helpless under the blows of science and the crushing weight of conformity--caused to gravitate to the masquerade in our streets in the name of "modernity." Fearfully concealing lack of initial courage or fundamental preparation or present merit: reactionary. Institutional public influences calling themselves conservative are really no more than the usual political stand-patters or social lid-sitters. As a feature of our cultural life architecture takes a backward direction, becomes less truly radical as our life itself grows more sterile, more conformist. All this in order to be safe? How soon will "we the people" awake to the fact that the philosophy of natural or intrinsic building we are here calling organic is at one with our freedom--as declared, 1776? ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#architecture

Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#draft #drafts #house #money #plan

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#architects #association #best #building #buildings

A house is a machine for living in. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#house #living #machine

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#create #function #objects #order #put

I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art. ↗

— Ice Cube

#architectural #art #arts #build #drafting

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. ↗

— Richard Ernst

#city #ernst #father #high #high school

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#comes #europe #japan #lightness #new

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#articulation #compared #comparison #did #enjoyed

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures are the ones you can actually convince someone to implement. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#actually #architectures #convince #implement #into