Architect Quote by Mario Botta Download Open image “The architect works in the territory of memory.” — Mario Botta ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture Memory Territory Works
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those,… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain the record… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience and the council-chamber of thought. — Giambattista Basile Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
It was very useful to learn the history, the theory, and the art of building from a practical background. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
There is great mystery in a church. For me, there is a great privilege to be confronted with the design of a church because… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
There's no point in us designing synthetic laboratories that could just as well be in Dusseldorf or Helsinki. San Francisco has its light, which… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I want to modernize the ancient. I prefer to work with materials formed naturally over thousands of years. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
