Architecten kramen veel onzin uit. Dat krijg je nou eenmaal van een combinatie van techniek en maatschappij. De één orakelt allerlei politiek geneuzel, de ander vervalt in grootheidswaanzin. Plus het levert een scala aan rake maatschappelijke observaties op. Gejaagd en verzameld:
mijn favoriet:
Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
Igor Stravinsky [1882 - 1971]
enkele wijsheden:
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build thier first buildings.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
Specialists are people who always repeat the same mistakes.
Walter Gropius [1883 - 1969]
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers [1933 - ]
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business.
Philip Johnson [1906 - 2005]
leuk / knipoog
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
Well, now that he's finished one building, he (Le Corbusier) 'll go write four books about it.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.
Le Corbusier [1887 - 1965]
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson [1906 - 2005]
I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?
Philip Johnson [1906 - 2005]
Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe [1886 - 1969]
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
Charles, Prince Of Wales
Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
R Buckminster Fuller [1895 - 1983]
verheven sentiment
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti [1404 - 1472]
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Luis Barragan [1902 - 1988]
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson [1906 - 2005]
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
R Buckminster Fuller [1895 - 1983]
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
R Buckminster Fuller [1895 - 1983]
speciaal voor ambtenaren
Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can't nail them to a wall.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Frank Lloyd Wright [1867 - 1959]
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Als aanvulling op de waslijst hier het gros van de relevante vindplaatsen.
Voor een beetje beroemde onzin kun je op redelijk wat plekken leuke verzamelingen vinden, en op nog veel meer sites staan halfslachtige verzamelingen.
De grootste verzameling kom ik tegen op Brainyquote, met zoekwoord
architect of
architecture.
Andere goede vindplaatsen zijn:
wat minder goede lijsten (minder uitgebreid en meer van hetzelfde):
Nederlandse varianten zijn er maar karig. Ik kom niet verder dan
citaten.net.
Wikiquote (Engels) is er nog niet in het Nederlands en is is nog wat leeg in de architectuur afdeling. Individuele architecten zijn er eventueel wel te vinden, zoals
Frank Lloyd Wright of een handjevol van
Rem Koolhaas.
Zoeken op naam kan overal, maar overzichtslijsten met alleen architecten staan verder alleen op
Brainyquote.com en
timelessquotes.com.
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