SITATER OM ARKITEKTUR OG STEDSUTVIKLING:
Prince Charles: "My chief object has been to try and create discussion about
the design of the built environment; to rekindle an alert awereness of our surroundings;
inspire a desire to observe; and most importantly, challenge the fashionable theories of a
professional establishment which has made the layman feel he has no legitimate
opinions."
"We must concentrate on creating environments in which people can prosper
psychologically, as human beings, not merely as cogs in a mechanical process. We need
design and layout which positively encourage neighbourliness, intimacy and, where there is
possible, a sense of shared belonging to a recognisable community"
Leon Krier: "In this crisis of construction, the architectural project has
regained all its millenial dignity as a thinking instrument. It becomes now clear that the
architectural reflection can at this precise moment only be undertaken through the
practical exercise in the form of a critique or in the form of critical project."
Rem Koolhaas, Duch architect: "Postwar architecture is the accountants'
revenge on the prewar businessmen's dreams."
Sir Denys Lasdun, British architect: "Architecture is a social art and only
makes sense as the promoter and exteder of human relations."
Le Corbusier, French architect: "The materials of city planning are sky,
space, steel and cement in that order and in that hiearchy". - "The house - a
machine for living."
Cedric Price, British architect: "The reason for architecture is to encourage
people...to behave, mentally and physically, in ways they had previously thought
impossible."
Richard Seifert, British architect: "There arent't in fact many individual
buildnings which need to be preserved."
Sir Basil Spence, British architect: "Slums have their good points, they at
least have a community spirit and solve the problem of loneliness."
Paul Thiry, American architect: "Buildnings should be good neighbours."
Frank Lloyd Wright, American architect: "Very few architects know anything
about architecture. For 500 years architecture has been a phoney." "A doctor can
bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines."
Nancy Banks Smith, British journalist:
"In my experience, if you have to keep
the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture."
Henryk Buszko & Alexander Franta, polish architects: "The architect is a
specialist, designing space for man in accordance with nature. The architecture is planned
environmental conditioning and the architect's task is to design space for human needs -
biological, functional and psychological."
Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman: "We shape our buildnings, thereafter
they shape us."
Ernest Dimnet, French writer: "Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which
acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."
Richard England, Maltese architect: "Modern man is born in a clinic and dies
in a clinic. It is therefore not surprising that he should spend the intermediate period
between these two paramount events of his life in utterly soulless clinical
environments?"
Arthur Erickson, Canadian architect: "Life is rich, always changing, always
challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass
and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space."
Walter Gropius, German architect: "The car is the greatest problem for
architecture."
Ron Herron, British architect: "When you are looking for a solution to what
you are told in n architectural problem -remember, it may not be a building."
Herbert Read, British lecturer in art: "The architect must express himself in
buildnings which have som utilitarian purpose."
Osho:
"Modern painting represents the ugly in existensce. The ugly has become
predominant for a certain reason- This century is one of the ugliets centuries."
"Man has lost track of his humanity." "Naturally this madness has erupted
everywhere - in painting, in music, in sculpture, in architecture - everywhere the ugly
human mind has created ugliness." "Ugliness has become an aestetic value"
Unknown:
An architect is said to be a man who knows a very little about a great
deal and keeps knowing less and less about more and more until he knows practically
nothing about everything, whereas on the other hand, an engineer is a man who knows a
great deal about very little and who goes along knowing more and more about less and less
until finally he knows practically evereything about nothing. A contractor starts out
knowing practically everything about everything, but ends up knowing nothing about
anything, due to his association with architects and engineers."
Alvar Aalto:
Journalisten: "Hvordan klarer du å skape så mange vakre
hus?" Aalto: "I Finland har vi så många vakra kvinnor, och dom fortjener vakra
hus!"
Ukjent:
VI BEVARER BARE DET VI ELSKER - VI ELSKER BARE DET VI FORSTÅR - VI
FORSTÅR BARE DET VI HAR LÆRT.
Arkitekt Jan Carlsen i "Regnbuebyen":
"Estetiske spørsmål er
alltid viktige, byggekunstens uttrykksformer vil bestandig være arkitektens særlige
anliggende. Men man kan ikke løsrive form fra innhold; en bygnings bruksverdi - et steds
menneskelige' kvaliteter - bør komme i første rekke når arkitekturens betydning
diskuteres."
"Ingen aktør i den teknisk- kunstneriske samfunnsbyggingen er så ensom og
fortvilet som arkitekten! Yrkesutøvelsen foregår mellom barken og veden, arkitektene
opererer i minefeltet mellom privat eiendomsrett og kollektive behov og ønsker, og dette
er profesjonens evinnelige dilemma."
Hundertwasser om arkitektur
Knut Knutsens nattetanker til arkitektstudentene
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