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abri este topico para trocar citações q achem mais ou menos interessantes de arquitectos..... e abro as ostelidades com:

“A linguagem da arquitectura não é, a meu ver, nenhuma questão de estilo arquitectónico. Cada edifício é construído com um determinado objectivo, num determinado lugar e para uma determinada sociedade”.
By Peter Zumthor, in Pensar a arquitectura

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“...Até o telhado era verde-alface, um verde eléctrico. Fiquei a pensar: no nosso século, não posso construir um mosteiro vermelho e verde!”

“...Se, nas casas que desenho, não faço um telhado convencional e sim um terraço, também neste caso não vou fazer um telhado convencional.”


“...Uma janela é um buraco numa parede. Uma porta é um buraco numa parede...”


“Penso que, para ter uma certa atmosfera natural, tudo tem que ser artificial.”

“O vidro existe desde os Fenícios, mas é demasiado velho para ser antigo. Por isso, agora, é moderno.”


Eduardo Souto de Moura - a propósito da Reconversão do Convento de Stª Mª do Bouro em Pousada
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  • 9 months later...

" podendo fazer aquilo que me apetece supliquei-lhe (à arquitectura) que se despojasse do seu vestido de marmore, retirasse a maquilhagem e se mostrasse como ela própria: despida como uma deusa jovem e graciosa. e tal como a verdadeira beleza, renunciasse a ser agradável e complacente"

Konstantin Melnikov, na shchetdoma, 1953....

interessante esta frase e esta data.....

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Less is More.
Mies van Der Rohe

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.


Less is only more where more is no good.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
Frank Lloyd Wright
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
Helmut Jahn
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Alvar Aalto:

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
Alvar Aalto

Our time is so specialised that we have people who know more and more or less and less.
Alvar Aalto

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.
Alvar Aalto

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.
Alvar Aalto

Alberti:

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Leon Battista Alberti

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

Men can do all things if they will.

Leon Battista Alberti

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.
Leon Battista Alberti

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti

Tadao Ando:

And people always relate to the spirit of the place, or to the spirit of the time.

Tadao Ando

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.
Tadao Ando

But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
Tadao Ando

But now, more and more, its society is concerned with economy and finance.
Tadao Ando

I am interested in things happening around me, and I need to understand what's going on in other artistic sectors like music and literature.
Tadao Ando

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Tadao Ando

I don't look so closely at women's fashion, but from the 20th century on, people have had the freedom to express themselves and their individualities, and fashion is one of the most fundamental ways in which they do this, men and women are equally able to express themselves.
Tadao Ando

I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
Tadao Ando

I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.
Tadao Ando

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.
Tadao Ando

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Tadao Ando

In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside.

Tadao Ando

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.
Tadao Ando

My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando

People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Tadao Ando

The computer offers another kind of creativity. You cannot ignore the creativity that computer technology can bring. But you need to be able to move between those two different worlds.
Tadao Ando

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

Tadao Ando

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
Tadao Ando

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Tadao Ando

When I design buildings, I think of the overall composition, much as the parts of a body would fit together. On top of that, I think about how people will approach the building and experience that space.
Tadao Ando

When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
Tadao Ando

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.
Tadao Ando

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
Tadao Ando

You always want to try to make something new, and, of course, America is the world leader in economics today.

Tadao Ando

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Tadao Ando

You cannot simply put something new into a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on the land, and then use that knowledge along with contemporary thinking to interpret what you see.
Tadao Ando

Barragan:

A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy.
Luis Barragan

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
Luis Barragan

Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.

Luis Barragan

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.
Luis Barragan

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

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
Luis Barragan

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
Luis Barragan
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“Sou contra essa ideia de especialização. Gosto de diversificar o meu trabalho, quero e tenho feito um pouco de tudo. Não se pode fazer bem um bairro social ou um museu sem ter feito casas. A arquitectura é só uma. As mãos que desenham e as mãos que constroem, seja o que for, são sempre as mesmas.”
Álvaro Siza Vieira

"Temos que usar a experiência naquilo que ela garante, mas também libertar-nos dela, naquilo que prende."

Álvaro Siza Vieira

"Arquitetura é arte, e isso está no meu espírito desde sempre."
Álvaro Siza Vieira

"Aprender é fundamental. Não só a olhar, mas a ver em profundidade, em detalhe, na globalidade."
Álvaro Siza Vieira

"Tal como uma vírgula pode destruir um texto, um caixilho pode destruir um mosteiro."
Eduardo Souto de Moura

"Como é costume dizer-se, o arquitecto tem que estar atento ao mundo, mas por outro lado, tem que ser um bocado esquizóide. Porque quando tem que desenhar, o mundo é uma folha A4."
Eduardo Souto de Moura

"O património é, de resto, uma das poucas coisas unânimes em Portugal: da extrema esquerda à extrema direita, está tudo de acordo em relação à necessidade de o conservar."
Eduardo Souto de Moura

"Duas obras nunca são iguais, ainda que estejam perto."
Eduardo Souto de Moura
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  • 8 months later...

Olá

Todos sabemos que estão sempre a aparecer novas citações, sobre as quais muitas vezes nos debruçamos e pensamos.
Hoje recebi um e-mail que rotularia automaticamente de SPAM mas esta apenas tinha uma frase de um artista, designer chamado Loren Klein :(

A frase muito simples:

"To touch is to experience, but to feel is to live."


Fiquei impressionado com a relação que esta frase pode ter com a arquitectura... Se a analisarmos podemos tirar algumas lições desta frase e até compara-la ao pensamento "corbusiano"

Que lições tiram voçês desta frase?
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Less is more The notion that simplicity and clarity lead to good design. This is a 19th proverbial phrase, of unknown origin. It is often associated with the architect and furniture designer Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe (1886-1969), one of the founders of modern architecture and a proponent of simplicity of style.

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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

A obra dele nao me cativa muito mas sua honestidade e de louvar. Infelizmente esta citacao continua a ser muito actual
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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

A obra dele nao me cativa muito mas sua honestidade e de louvar. Infelizmente esta citacao continua a ser muito actual
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tens toda a razao.... mas houve muito bons arquitectos que souberam gerir o quanto se vendiam ou nao. Outros que ja com fama e uma grande carteira de clientes vendem-se e e acabam por denegrir todo o trabalho que fizeram apenas por motivos comerciais. koolhaas em dubai por exemplo, ele proprio disse que se nao fosse ele a fazer seria outro qualquer! Na minha opiniao nao foi outro qualquer que fez a biblioteca de seatle, nem que escreveu "delirius new york", e mesmo a casa da musica. Outros como Zaha Hadid ou Frank Gehry estao fora de controlo, mas esses nao me desiludem nunca tiveram nada que me cativasse verdadeiramente. Enfim, sao os dilemas entre ser Arquitecto - Artista vs. arquitecto - empresario

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tens toda a razao.... mas houve muito bons arquitectos que souberam gerir o quanto se vendiam ou nao. Outros que ja com fama e uma grande carteira de clientes vendem-se e e acabam por denegrir todo o trabalho que fizeram apenas por motivos comerciais. koolhaas em dubai por exemplo, ele proprio disse que se nao fosse ele a fazer seria outro qualquer! Na minha opiniao nao foi outro qualquer que fez a biblioteca de seatle, nem que escreveu "delirius new york", e mesmo a casa da musica. Outros como Zaha Hadid ou Frank Gehry estao fora de controlo, mas esses nao me desiludem nunca tiveram nada que me cativasse verdadeiramente. Enfim, sao os dilemas entre ser Arquitecto - Artista vs. arquitecto - empresario

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O Ghery sempre se vendeu, na verdade o primeiro projecto decente dele deve de se o guggenheim de Bilbao, e depois disso nao sei se fez mais alguma coisa de jeito. ja a Zaha Hadid, e muito difrente, realmente nao sei como podem por ambos no mesmo saco, nao se esquecam que a Zaha Hadid esteve muitos anos sem qualquer trabalho.

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O Ghery sempre se vendeu, na verdade o primeiro projecto decente dele deve de se o guggenheim de Bilbao, e depois disso nao sei se fez mais alguma coisa de jeito. ja a Zaha Hadid, e muito difrente, realmente nao sei como podem por ambos no mesmo saco, nao se esquecam que a Zaha Hadid esteve muitos anos sem qualquer trabalho.

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