I don't see that any buildings should be... | Arne Jacobsen

Architecture

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

- Arne Jacobsen

Quote of the Day

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

- Jack Nicholson

Other quotes by Arne Jacobsen

Philosophy

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

- Arne Jacobsen

Care People

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

- Arne Jacobsen

The primary factor is proportions.

- Arne Jacobsen

Manufacturing

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.

- Arne Jacobsen

Fact Right First

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.

- Arne Jacobsen

Work Time Will

You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests.

- Arne Jacobsen

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Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

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Architecture Now

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

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Architecture First

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

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French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

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Architecture Thinking Will

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

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Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

- Arthur Erickson