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A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.
I’ve said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world.
Juhani Pallasmaa
Peter Zumthor
(1936– )
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(1943– )
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i think drawings are drawings and buildings are buildings. when i draw, i try to represent the idea of the building. the drawings, however, are in watercolor, or prismacolor, or graphite on paper, and therefore they cannot be a building.
Architects make drawings that other people build. I make the drawings. If someone wants to build from those, that’s up to them.
Michael Graves
Lebbeus Woods
(1940– )
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Form ever follows function.
Form follows form, not function.
Louis Sullivan
Philip Johnson
(1856–1924)
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The ideal project does not exist, each time there is the opportunity to realize an approximation. Paulo Mendes da Rocha
(1928– )
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When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, “The next one.” Emilio Ambasz
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I’m totally against the heroic stuff. We do little stuff. We are totally for the pathetic. Michael Meredith
(1971– )
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Basically, the idea is that with everyone striving to be revolutionary, you will be most revolutionary if you try to be ordinary. Denise Scott Brown
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