Quotes from Architects

Ricochet J · 17 Sep 2006 at 17:59

Hello there

Does anyone know any good quotes from an Architect about Architecture?
I can do with some inspiration

Thanks

Edit: And if you don't mind, their origin too. Like this was said by xy from book ab.

Ricochet J · 17 Sep 2006 at 19:35

What happened to the age old tradition no thread dies in GD without at least one reply

locutus12 · 17 Sep 2006 at 19:43

working on it... 2 minutes

Tru · 17 Sep 2006 at 19:44

Great architecture should wear its message lightly

Sir Norman Foster

KaHn · 17 Sep 2006 at 19:45

Architect's don't have great quotes, what you need is the quotes engineers give when asked to do something impossible by the architect.

KaHn

locutus12 · 17 Sep 2006 at 19:48

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen C. Barrett

Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world ...
Sir John Vanbrugh

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

http://www.bsa-architects.com/articles/quotes.html <-- quotations and sources within. good luck.

Ricochet J · 17 Sep 2006 at 19:52

Thanks guys. I knew I could count on you (I couldn't find any all afternoon).

That'll do

Teifiterror · 17 Sep 2006 at 20:18

KaHn said:
Architect's don't have great quotes, what you need is the quotes engineers give when asked to do something impossible by the architect.

KaHn

SOOOOOOOOOO True!!!

Why do all these architects get all th credit? they draw a pretty picture and give it to the engineers to try and get it to actually work!

manoz · 17 Sep 2006 at 20:28

"Architecture or Revolution. Revolution can be avoided" - Le Corbusier

Tru · 17 Sep 2006 at 20:30

Teifiterror said:
Why do all these architects get all th credit? they draw a pretty picture and give it to the engineers to try and get it to actually work!

Because Architects are often creative, charismatic types who enjoy the recognition their work draws, while engineers are generally pencil chewing wallflowers who shun the limelight.

Aod · 17 Sep 2006 at 22:05

Tru said:
engineers are generally pencil chewing wallflowers who shun the limelight.

*Zoidberg* Thats me baby */Zoidberg*

DB_SamX · 18 Sep 2006 at 00:30

"God is in the details." By Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

So true, a personal favourite I like to err...design by sometimes. I study Civil Eng. with Arch; one day I'll say something clever or witty...and it'll appear on websites such as here...watch this space.

Also:

A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le Corbusier

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

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.
Le Corbusier

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

The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier

The most beautiful bridge in the world. so pure, so resolute, so regular that here, finally, steel architecture seems to laugh.
Le Corbusier

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

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan - that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.
Le Corbusier

I can dig some more out if you like.

jumpy · 18 Sep 2006 at 10:58

EDIT linky appears to not work :confused:

says it all

from here