Citas - Quotes

En BUILD Blog han comenzado una serie de post con citas de arquitectos y diseñadores, como ya hizo en su día Norman Blogster en Part IV, con su serie "Architecture is..."

Voy a copiar algunas de las más interesantes y añadir alguna:

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier

Architecture is waste in transit.
Peter Guthrie

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson

Architecture is the reaching out for truth.
Louis Kahn

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is generated by the material and spiritual needs of people.
Norman Foster

Architecture is the process of embodying beauty and function in the built environment.
Richard Rogers

Architecture is whatever architects say it is
Norman Blogster (Artículo respecto a este tema aquí)

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller

The public is more familiar with bad design than good design. It is, in effect, conditioned to prefer bad design, because that is what it lives with. The new becomes threatening, the old reassuring.
Paul Rand

Honor your clients – they could have gone out and bought a new home on their credit card instead of hiring an architect.
Will Bruder

Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.
Bruce Mau

If everyone loves your work you’re playing it much too safe.
David Carson

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep.
Le Corbusier

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
Luis Barragan

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
Steve Jobs

I don’t want to be interesting, I want to be good.
Mies van der Rohe