Samuel Mockbee famous quotes

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The hand expresses what the heart already knows.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Inspiration #Heart #Hands
The meaning resides in one's own experience, making the everyday the exceptional.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Inspiration #Everyday #Architecture
Take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Excellence #Ordinary #Extraordinary
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that, the one true gift that an architect has is his or her imagination. We take something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Imagination #Design #Addresses
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Soul #Environmental #Shelter
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will take the subversive leadership of academics and practitioners who keep reminding students of the professionâ€™s responsibilities.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Responsibility #Community #Inspire
Theory and practice are not only interwoven with oneâ€™s culture but with the responsibility of shaping the environment, of breaking up social complacency, and challenging the power of the status quo.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Responsibility #Practice #Challenges
I tell my students, it's got to be warm, dry, and noble.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Dry #Noble #Students
It's not about your greatness as an architect, but your compassion
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Compassion #Greatness #Architect
The Goal is not to have a warm, dry house, but to have a warm, dry house with a spirit to it.
-- Samuel Mockbee

#Goal #House #Dry

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