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“ Creating  Arch i tecture that is bothmod ern and und eniab ly Fi l ip ino.”  

― Leandro Locsin

“ Archi tecture must respond to loca l

cond i t ions .”  

“I design Filipino”  

“ Archit ectu re mus t b e true to itself, its

land, and its peopl e.

““Three factors m ake archi tecture

tru ly Fi lip ino, Fi l ip ino

values, Phi l ippine c l imate and the useof indigeno us materials”  

― Francisco ‘Bobby’ Mañosa

“The structure should not only lookgood but must also be made well.”  

― Carlos Santos Viola

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“The structure must be well oriented.”  

― Caesar Homero Concio

“Bui ld ings s hould b e planned wi th auster ity

in m ind and i ts s tabi l i ty forever as the aim o f

true archi tecture, that bui ld ing s must b e

prog ressive, simple in design bu t digni f ied,

t rue to a purpose wi thout resor t ing to an

appl ied set of aesthet ics and sh ould eternal ly

recreate truth."  

“ A tru ly great work o f arch i tecture mus t

express harmony , simpl ic i ty, organic beauty,

natural integr i ty, and beauty .”  

― Pablo Antonio

“ A Pragmatic Appro ach to

 Architecture”  

― Gilbert Yu 

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“ Everyone used to want to be star

architects. That’s no longer thecase.”  

― Shigeru Ban

“I’ve said goodbye to theoverworked not ion th at archi tecture

has to saved the world”

“ Bu i ld ings c an have a beaut i fu lsilence.”  

― Peter Zumthor

“Drawing architecture is aschizo id act : i t invo lves reducing

the world to a piece of paper.”  

― Eduardo Suoto de Moura

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“ Archi tecture should speak of i ts t ime

and place, but y earn for

t imelessness.”  

― Frank Gehry

“ We are cal led to be archi tects of th e

future, not i ts v ic t ims.”  

― R. Buckminster Fuller

“ A g reat bui ld ing m ust begin w i th the

unmeasurable, mus t go thro ugh

measurable means when i t is being

designed and in the end must b e

unmeasurable.”  

“ Arc hi tecture is the reachin g ou t for thetru th .”  

― Louis Kahn

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“ Color in certa in p laces h as the greatvalue of making the out l ines and

stru ctural planes seem m ore energet ic.”  

“ Those who look fo r the laws of Natureas a supp or t for the ir new works

col laborate with th e creator.”  

― Antonio Gaudi

“ Arc hi tecture is th e learned g ame,

correct and magni f icent , of form s

assembled in the l ight.”  

“ A h ouse is a machine for l iv ing in .”  

― Le Corbusier

“ Arc hi tecture is basical ly a con tainerof something. I hope they w i l l enjoy

not s o much the teacup, but the tea.”  

― Yoshio Taniguchi

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“Cities are the greatest creationsof humanity.”  

“ To provide meaning ful

arch i tecture is n ot to parody

histo ry bu t to art iculate it .”  

― Daniel Libeskind

“ Form fo l lows prof i t is the

aesthet ic pr inc ip le of our

t imes.”  

― Richard Rogers

“ Form fo l lows func t ion.”  

― Louis Sullivan

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“ Nothing requires the archi tect 'scare more than the due prop or t ions

of bui ld ings.”  

― Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“ Arc hi tects have made archi tecture

too complex. We need to simpl i fy i t

and u se a language that everyon e

can und erstand.”  

― Toyo Ito 

“ Archi tecture is invent ion.”  

― Oscar Niemeyer

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“ Arc hi tects today tend to depreciatethemselves, to regard themselves

as no m ore than just ord inaryc i t izens wi thout the power to reform

the future.”  

― Kenzo Tange 

“ Archi tecture is how th e personplaces hersel f in the space. Fashion

is about how you place the object

on the person.”  

― Zaha Hadid

“ Each n ew s i t ua t i on requ i r es a

new a rch i t e c tu re .”  

― Jean Nouvel

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  “  You canno t s imp l y pu t

som eth ing new in to a p lace . You

have to abso rb wha t you see

around you , wha t ex i s ts on the

land , and then u se tha t kno wledgea long w i th con tempora ry th ink ing

to in te rp re t what you s ee.”  

― Tadao Ando

“There is a rumor that I can’t

draw and neve r cou ld . Th is i s

p robab ly because I work s o m uch

w i th mo de ls . Mode ls are one of

the mos t beau t ifu l des ign too l s ,

bu t I s t i l l do the f i nes t d raw ings

you can imagine.”  

― Jørn Utzon

“ I may no t be the mos t

interesting architect, but I’m still

out there and have main ta inedsom e pos i t i on o f in teg r it y .”  

― David Chipperfield

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“ Each mater ia l has i ts own

shadow . The shadow o f s tone is

no t the same as tha t o f a br i t t le

au tumn lea f . The shadow

penet ra tes the mater ia l and

rad ia tes i ts mess age. “  

― Sverre Fern

“The life of an Architect i s one

o f f i gh t : f i gh t aga ins t the

ug l i ness .”  

― Massimo Vignelli

“When an architect is asked

wh a t h i s bes t bu i l d ing i s , he

usually answers, “The next

one.”

― Emilio Ambas

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“I t el l my s tuden t s : you mus t

pu t i n to you r wo rk f i r s t

e f fo r t , secon d love , and th i rd

su f fe r i ng .”  

― Glenn Murcutt

“ There a re many arch i tec ts whoaren’t really aware of their ownpa t te rns , jus t l i ke mos t peop le

don’t know their patterns inpr iva te . We f ind tha t a rea l l y

exc i t i ng theme because

arch i tec tu re and psycho logy

sud den ly become very c lose .”  

― Jacques Herzog

“ One o f t h e g r ea t beau t i e s

o f a r ch i t e c t u r e i s t ha t each

t ime , i t i s l i k e l i f e s t a r t i n g

all over again.”  

― Renzo Piano

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“ I don' t bel ieve in moral i ty in

archi tecture.”  

“ In any arc hitectu re, there is anequi ty between the pragmatic

funct ion and the symbol ic

funct ion.”  

― Michael Graves

“ Arc hi tects in the past have tendedto co ncentrate their attent ion on th e

bui ld ing as a s tat ic object. I believe

dynamics are more imp or tant : the

dynamics of people, their

interact ion with spaces and

envi ronmenta l condi t ion.”  

― John Portman 

“ My bui ld in gs wi l l be my legacy ...

they w i l l speak for m e long after I'm

gone.”  

“ Arc hi tecture is a visu al art , and thebui ld ings speak for themselves.”  

― Julia Morgan 

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“ As arch i tects we are often invo lvedin the concrete-steel-and-glass

aspect of i t , but ci t ies are social

structures, and to be involved inimaginin g the future of ci t ies and th e

type of relat ionsh ips and the types of

places that we're making is

someth ing that in t r igues me very

much .”  

― Michael Arad 

“ Archi tecture arouses sent iments in

man. The arch itect 's task th erefore, is

to make those sent iments more

precise.”  

“ The work of ar t shows people newdirect ions and thinks of the future.

The house thinks of the present ” .

― Adolf Loos 

“ Proport ions are what makes the

old Greek temples classic in th eir

beauty. They are l ike huge bloc ks,from wh ich th e air has been l i teral ly

hewn out between the columns.”  

― Arne Jacobsen 

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“ People can inhabi t anything . An dthey can be miserable in anythin g

and ecstat ic in anyth ing. More and

mo re I think th at archi tecture hasnoth ing to do wi th i t . Of course,

that 's both l iberat ing and

alarming.”  

― Rem Koolhaas 

“ Arc hi tecture is an art when oneconsc ious ly or unconsc ious ly

creates aesthet ic emotio n in the

atmosphere and when th is

envi ronment produces wel l - 

being.”  

― Luis Barragan 

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