"When I think of a place of worship,……" — Richard Meier
"When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light."
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10 Quotes by Richard Meier
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When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of…
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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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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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