Architect Quotes

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
We have almost a city has probably two or three hundred committees. Every committee is dealing with just one problem and has nothing to do with the other problems.
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Copiers do not collaborate.
The creation continues incessantly through the media of man.
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell.
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.
Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment.
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
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