Denise Scott Brown famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#People #Architecture #Attractive
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#Analysis #Architecture #Sociology
Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#People #Magic #Way
At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#Mother #Feelings #Architecture
In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called â€˜I can like something worse than you can like.â€™
-- Denise Scott Brown

#Games #1960s
Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.
-- Denise Scott Brown

#Children #Believe #Rights

Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.
Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.
Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.
My dad had a personal style which was very attractive. It was quite reserved and quite elegant, and it was infectious.
I like attractive people who aren't so terribly aware that they are attractive... people who aren't afraid to roll on the floor and make fools out of themselves.

Denise Scott Brown famous quotes

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