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- A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque…
- Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving…
- Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus…
- Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional…
- Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural…
- The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of…
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- I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together. — Eli Broad
- Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration -… — Julie Burchill
- Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. Burroughs
- Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile… — Graydon Carter
- I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture… — Tadao Ando
- The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client… — Unknown Author
- Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
- I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry
- There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care… — David Chipperfield
- I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great… — Douglas MacArthur
- The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying… — Robert Hunter