Architect Quote by Alvar Aalto Download Open image “It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.” — Alvar Aalto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture Giving Life Structure Tasks
A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
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Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to create an atmosphere in which man can live, work, and enjoy. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those,… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we design new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Human life is a combination of tragedy and comedy. The shapes and designs that surround us are the music accompanying this tragedy and this… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The best standardisation committee in the world is nature herself, but in nature standardisation occurs mainly in connection with the smallest possible units: cells.… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
The most difficult problems are naturally not involved in the search for forms for contemporary life. It is a question of working our way… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
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When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
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Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
