"When I am asked what I believe in,……" — Richard Meier
"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 believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible."
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10 Quotes by Richard Meier
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We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less…
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To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14…
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Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
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I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the…
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Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night,…
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The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
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When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded…
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An important work of architecture will create polemics.
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Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people…
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