Overview
If there’s anything architects like doing more than designing buildings, it’s talking about architecture. Whether musing about their inspirations (a blank sheet of paper, the sun hitting the side of a building), expanding on each other’s thoughts (on materials, collaboration, clients, and constraints), or dishing out a clever quip, architects make good copy. The Architect Says is a colorful compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history’s most opinionated design minds. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party—an architect of today might sit next to a contemporary or someone from the eighteenth century—these sets of quotes convey a remarkable depth and diversity of thinking. Alternately wise and amusing, this elegant gem of a book makes the perfect gift for architects, students, and anyone curious about the ideas and personalities that have helped shape our built world.
Full Product Details
Author: Laura Dushkes
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Imprint: Princeton Architectural Press
Edition: Firsttion ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 13.20cm
, Height: 2.10cm
, Length: 18.60cm
Weight: 0.230kg
ISBN: 9781616890933
ISBN 10: 1616890932
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 01 October 2012
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Selected list of architects / critics included in the compendium: Alvar Aalto, Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Denise Scott Brown, Santiago Calatrava, David Chipperfield, Leonardo da Vinci, Philbert de l Orme, Elizabeth Diller, Charles Eames, Peter Eisenman, Buckminster Fuller, Antonio Gaudi, Frank Gehry, Michael Graves, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Thomas Jefferson, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhass, Tom Kundig, Rem Koolhass, Le Corbusier, Daniel Libeskind, Adolf Loos, Sam Mockbee, Julia Morgan, I. M. Pei, Renzo Piano, John Ruskin, Eero Saarinen, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi, Vitruvius, Frank Lloyd Wright, Peter Zumthor.
Reviews
The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom gathers timeless wisdom on design and architecture from more than 100 of history's most vocal-and often dissenting-minds. What emerges, besides the fascinating tapas bar of ideas about the art and science of building, is the subtle but essential reminder that what lies at the heart of creative legacy aren't universal formulas and unrelenting tenets but perspective, conviction, and personality. -- Brain Pickings
A pocketbook of inspiration.... Coming across unexpected quotes or ones that hit a nerve makes a flip through the book great. A couple of my favorites includes Jan Kaplicky: 'It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.' and Frank Gehry: 'I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.' These and other quotes make the book a great gift. -- Archidose.com The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom gathers timeless wisdom on design and architecture from more than 100 of history's most vocal-and often dissenting-minds. What emerges, besides the fascinating tapas bar of ideas about the art and science of building, is the subtle but essential reminder that what lies at the heart of creative legacy aren't universal formulas and unrelenting tenets but perspective, conviction, and personality. -- Brain Pickings When it's 4 am and you're sitting in a confused mess of crumpled trace paper and dull X-acto blades, turn to this trusty compilation and try to find the light. -- ArtInfo.com
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