#architect

When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I wanted to or not, I learned that you can accept some changes to its form without compromising its intent. But it's a leap of faith that I didn't want to make initially - to put it mildly. ↗

— Michael Arad

#accept #any #apprehensive #architect #changes

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved. ↗

— Richard Meier

#architecture #discussion #good #i #i think

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They determine the way in which we use or squander our energy, time, and land resources. ↗

— Leon Krier

#community #design #architecture

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architects #luxury #many #reject #significant

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply. ↗

— Christopher Durang

#another #architect #attentive #charming #deeply

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#behind #curtain #design #graphic #graphic design

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. ↗

— Ralph Erskine

#buildings #ease #human #human relations #improve

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#assembled #correct #forms #game #learned

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#appealing #architects #chiefs #constructive #envisioned