#architects

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. ↗

— Richard Rogers

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Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. ↗

— Ted Dexter

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There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine. ↗

— Richard Buckminster Fuller

#architecture #design #architecture

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

— Rem Koolhaas

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Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#architects #best #business #chicago #construction

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. ↗

— Robin Day

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