"Clearly, if a building is not functionally and……" — Arne Jacobsen

"Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building."

— Arne Jacobsen

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31 Quotes by Arne Jacobsen

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If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there…
That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up…
It may sound affected - but it is the act of creation itself, and it is equally exhilarating whether one…
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their…
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that…
People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.
There is always a point when one senses ones lack of skill, the doubt
None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the…
The primary factor is proportions.

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More Architecture Quotes

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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat… — Alvar Aalto
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and… — Alvar Aalto
A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split… — Alvar Aalto
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit… — Alvar Aalto
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in… — Dan Brown
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases.… — Dan Brown

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