Architect And Their Quotes Flashcards

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Walter gropius

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Good architecture should be a projection of life itself and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical ,and artistic problems
1. Gropius house , massachusetts
2. Fagus factory , germany

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Zaha zadid

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Architecture is not about shelter only it should be able to exicite you calm you to make you thik
1. Bridge pavilion spain
2. Maxxi museum of 21sr century arts -
3. Hydar aliya centre

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Tadao ando

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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture
Church of light japan
Shanghai poly grand theatre china

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Shigeru ban

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Im not inventing anything new im just using existing materials differently
1. Centre Pompidou-Metz france
2 cardboard cathedral, new zealand

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Santiago calatrava

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Always searching for more light and space
1.alamillo bridge spain
2. Auditorio de tenerife spain

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Robert venturi

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Less is bore
1. Gordon wu hall nyc
2. Ssainburg wing uk

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Robert stem

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To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form
15 central park west new york
Comcast tower Pennsylvania

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Rem koolhaas

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A building has 2 lives 1 imagined by its maker and the life afterwards and they are never the same
1. Macormick tribune campus centre chicago
2. CCTV headquarters china

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Renzo piano

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Architects have to dream we have to search for our Atlantises to be explorers adventurous and yet to build responsibly and well
1. Centre georges pompidou paris
2. The shard London

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Richard meier

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An important work of architecture will create polemics
1. Barcelona museum of art spain
2. The getty centre los angeles

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Louis khan

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Architecture is reaching out the truth
IIM Ahmedabad
Jatiyo sangshad bhaban bangladesh

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Le Corbusier

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To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and object
1. Villa savoye
2. Esprit nouveau pavillion paris

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Mies van der rohe

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Less is more
Fransworth house plano
Seagram building new york

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Norman foster

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As an architect you design for the present with the awareness of the past for a future which is essentially unknown
30 saint axe London
Willis faber and Dumas headquarters ipswich

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Oscar niemeyer

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Form follows function
Contemporary art Museum brazil
Natak city park brazil

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Charles correa

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Market forces do not make city they destroy them
Jawahar kala kendra india
Bharat bhavan

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Daniel libeskind

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To provide meaningful archiis not to parody history but to articulate it
1. Jewish museum Berlin
2. Imperial war museum england

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Eero saarinen

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Function influences but does not dictate form
Gateway arch missouri
Twa terminal nyc

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Frank Lloyd wright

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The mother art is architecture without an artpchitecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilisation
1. Falling water pensalvania
2. Guggenheim museum nyc

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Frank gehry

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The walt disney concert hall california
Marqués de riscal vineyard hotel spain

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Jean nouvel

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Each new situation requires a new architecture
Louvre abu dhabi uae
Agbar tower spai

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Im pei

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an lasting architecture as to have roots!
Museums of Islamic arts doha
Louvre pyramid paris

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Kenzo tange

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Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long
1. Gateway arch missouri
2. Tokyo olympic arenas japan

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Anatoni gaudí

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There are no straight lines or sharp comers in nature therefore building must have no straight lines and sharo comers
1. Casa batlló spain
2. Sagrada família spain