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“ Creating Arch i tecture that is bothmod ern and und eniab ly Fi l ip ino.”
― Leandro Locsin
“ Archi tecture must respond to loca l
cond i t ions .”
“I design Filipino”
“ Archit ectu re mus t b e true to itself, its
land, and its peopl e.
““Three factors m ake archi tecture
tru ly Fi lip ino, Fi l ip ino
values, Phi l ippine c l imate and the useof indigeno us materials”
― Francisco ‘Bobby’ Mañosa
“The structure should not only lookgood but must also be made well.”
― Carlos Santos Viola
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“The structure must be well oriented.”
― Caesar Homero Concio
“Bui ld ings s hould b e planned wi th auster ity
in m ind and i ts s tabi l i ty forever as the aim o f
true archi tecture, that bui ld ing s must b e
prog ressive, simple in design bu t digni f ied,
t rue to a purpose wi thout resor t ing to an
appl ied set of aesthet ics and sh ould eternal ly
recreate truth."
“ A tru ly great work o f arch i tecture mus t
express harmony , simpl ic i ty, organic beauty,
natural integr i ty, and beauty .”
― Pablo Antonio
“ A Pragmatic Appro ach to
Architecture”
― Gilbert Yu
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“ Everyone used to want to be star
architects. That’s no longer thecase.”
― Shigeru Ban
“I’ve said goodbye to theoverworked not ion th at archi tecture
has to saved the world”
“ Bu i ld ings c an have a beaut i fu lsilence.”
― Peter Zumthor
“Drawing architecture is aschizo id act : i t invo lves reducing
the world to a piece of paper.”
― Eduardo Suoto de Moura
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“ Archi tecture should speak of i ts t ime
and place, but y earn for
t imelessness.”
― Frank Gehry
“ We are cal led to be archi tects of th e
future, not i ts v ic t ims.”
― R. Buckminster Fuller
“ A g reat bui ld ing m ust begin w i th the
unmeasurable, mus t go thro ugh
measurable means when i t is being
designed and in the end must b e
unmeasurable.”
“ Arc hi tecture is the reachin g ou t for thetru th .”
― Louis Kahn
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“ Color in certa in p laces h as the greatvalue of making the out l ines and
stru ctural planes seem m ore energet ic.”
“ Those who look fo r the laws of Natureas a supp or t for the ir new works
col laborate with th e creator.”
― Antonio Gaudi
“ Arc hi tecture is th e learned g ame,
correct and magni f icent , of form s
assembled in the l ight.”
“ A h ouse is a machine for l iv ing in .”
― Le Corbusier
“ Arc hi tecture is basical ly a con tainerof something. I hope they w i l l enjoy
not s o much the teacup, but the tea.”
― Yoshio Taniguchi
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“Cities are the greatest creationsof humanity.”
“ To provide meaning ful
arch i tecture is n ot to parody
histo ry bu t to art iculate it .”
― Daniel Libeskind
“ Form fo l lows prof i t is the
aesthet ic pr inc ip le of our
t imes.”
― Richard Rogers
“ Form fo l lows func t ion.”
― Louis Sullivan
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“ Nothing requires the archi tect 'scare more than the due prop or t ions
of bui ld ings.”
― Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
“ Arc hi tects have made archi tecture
too complex. We need to simpl i fy i t
and u se a language that everyon e
can und erstand.”
― Toyo Ito
“ Archi tecture is invent ion.”
― Oscar Niemeyer
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“ Arc hi tects today tend to depreciatethemselves, to regard themselves
as no m ore than just ord inaryc i t izens wi thout the power to reform
the future.”
― Kenzo Tange
“ Archi tecture is how th e personplaces hersel f in the space. Fashion
is about how you place the object
on the person.”
― Zaha Hadid
“ Each n ew s i t ua t i on requ i r es a
new a rch i t e c tu re .”
― Jean Nouvel
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“ You canno t s imp l y pu t
som eth ing new in to a p lace . You
have to abso rb wha t you see
around you , wha t ex i s ts on the
land , and then u se tha t kno wledgea long w i th con tempora ry th ink ing
to in te rp re t what you s ee.”
― Tadao Ando
“There is a rumor that I can’t
draw and neve r cou ld . Th is i s
p robab ly because I work s o m uch
w i th mo de ls . Mode ls are one of
the mos t beau t ifu l des ign too l s ,
bu t I s t i l l do the f i nes t d raw ings
you can imagine.”
― Jørn Utzon
“ I may no t be the mos t
interesting architect, but I’m still
out there and have main ta inedsom e pos i t i on o f in teg r it y .”
― David Chipperfield
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“ Each mater ia l has i ts own
shadow . The shadow o f s tone is
no t the same as tha t o f a br i t t le
au tumn lea f . The shadow
penet ra tes the mater ia l and
rad ia tes i ts mess age. “
― Sverre Fern
“The life of an Architect i s one
o f f i gh t : f i gh t aga ins t the
ug l i ness .”
― Massimo Vignelli
“When an architect is asked
wh a t h i s bes t bu i l d ing i s , he
usually answers, “The next
one.”
― Emilio Ambas
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“I t el l my s tuden t s : you mus t
pu t i n to you r wo rk f i r s t
e f fo r t , secon d love , and th i rd
su f fe r i ng .”
― Glenn Murcutt
“ There a re many arch i tec ts whoaren’t really aware of their ownpa t te rns , jus t l i ke mos t peop le
don’t know their patterns inpr iva te . We f ind tha t a rea l l y
exc i t i ng theme because
arch i tec tu re and psycho logy
sud den ly become very c lose .”
― Jacques Herzog
“ One o f t h e g r ea t beau t i e s
o f a r ch i t e c t u r e i s t ha t each
t ime , i t i s l i k e l i f e s t a r t i n g
all over again.”
― Renzo Piano
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“ I don' t bel ieve in moral i ty in
archi tecture.”
“ In any arc hitectu re, there is anequi ty between the pragmatic
funct ion and the symbol ic
funct ion.”
― Michael Graves
“ Arc hi tects in the past have tendedto co ncentrate their attent ion on th e
bui ld ing as a s tat ic object. I believe
dynamics are more imp or tant : the
dynamics of people, their
interact ion with spaces and
envi ronmenta l condi t ion.”
― John Portman
“ My bui ld in gs wi l l be my legacy ...
they w i l l speak for m e long after I'm
gone.”
“ Arc hi tecture is a visu al art , and thebui ld ings speak for themselves.”
― Julia Morgan
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“ As arch i tects we are often invo lvedin the concrete-steel-and-glass
aspect of i t , but ci t ies are social
structures, and to be involved inimaginin g the future of ci t ies and th e
type of relat ionsh ips and the types of
places that we're making is
someth ing that in t r igues me very
much .”
― Michael Arad
“ Archi tecture arouses sent iments in
man. The arch itect 's task th erefore, is
to make those sent iments more
precise.”
“ The work of ar t shows people newdirect ions and thinks of the future.
The house thinks of the present ” .
― Adolf Loos
“ Proport ions are what makes the
old Greek temples classic in th eir
beauty. They are l ike huge bloc ks,from wh ich th e air has been l i teral ly
hewn out between the columns.”
― Arne Jacobsen
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“ People can inhabi t anything . An dthey can be miserable in anythin g
and ecstat ic in anyth ing. More and
mo re I think th at archi tecture hasnoth ing to do wi th i t . Of course,
that 's both l iberat ing and
alarming.”
― Rem Koolhaas
“ Arc hi tecture is an art when oneconsc ious ly or unconsc ious ly
creates aesthet ic emotio n in the
atmosphere and when th is
envi ronment produces wel l -
being.”
― Luis Barragan