Bernard Tschumi famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Appreciate #Needs #May
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Architecture #Building #Cathedrals
Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Mean #Space #Order
Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Excess #Delight #Prohibition
I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Regret #Father #Architecture
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Views #Architecture #Stage
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Eye #Shelter #Bricks
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.
-- Bernard Tschumi

#Architecture #Form

I appreciate what I have a lot more than I did when I was younger.
It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.
My parents told us how they felt but never imposed their beliefs on us, although I appreciate I got a healthy sense of democracy from them.
If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
What we need now for quickening is not so much money and wisdom as the spirit of supplication. Pray for yourself until the new life is infused. When that new life comes, it will lead you to pray for others.
Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and Âirritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
The experience youâ€™ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it.
I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.

Bernard Tschumi famous quotes

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