Samuel Mockbee Quotes

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• Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.
• Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that,…
• The hand expresses what the heart already knows.
• The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.
• It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion
• I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.
• Theory and practice are not only interwoven with one’s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging…
• If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive…
• Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
• The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.

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