Architect Quote by Eero Saarinen

“To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.”

Eero Saarinen

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The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence,

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I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.

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The major concern ...was to create a monument which would have lasting significance and would be a landmark of our time... Neither an obelisk…

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I have come to the conviction that once one embarks on a concept for a building, this concept has to be exaggerated and overstated…

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Confusion comes from trying to amalgamate several conflicting ideas.

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Egyptian pyramids or obelisks – seemed to be the basis of the great memorials that have kept their significance and dignity across time. Neither…

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Function influence but does not dictate form

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What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be measured in…

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