Richard Meier Quotes

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• When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to…
• We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini.…
• To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to…
• Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
• I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.
• Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become…
• The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
• When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that…
• An important work of architecture will create polemics.
• Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

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