Hugh Newell Jacobsen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it.
-- Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#Reading #Pride #Cities
Washington is the only city in the world where you can go to a black-tie dinner and there at the foot of the table is a television set up to catch a press conference.
-- Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#Cities #Feet #Black
It is our art that has an opportunity to leave a footprint in the sand. They don't wrap fish in our work.
-- Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#Art #Opportunity #Fish Tanks
Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have to ask why.
-- Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#Design #Said #Daffodil

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading.
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.
It would be an endless battle if it were all up to ego because it does not destroy and is not destroyed by itself It is like a wave it makes itself up, it rushes forward getting nowhere really it crashes, withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
God the first garden made, and the first city Cain.
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit this monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman elegance. Any city gets what it admires, will pay for, and, ultimately, deserves. Even when we had Penn Station, we couldnâ€™t afford to keep it clean. We want and deserve tin-can architecture in a tinhorn culture. And we will probably be judged not by the monuments we build but by those we have destroyed
I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.

Hugh Newell Jacobsen famous quotes

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