Richard Meier famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.
-- Richard Meier

#Mother #Art #Believe
An important work of architecture will create polemics.
-- Richard Meier

#Important #Architecture #Polemics
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.
-- Richard Meier

#Night #Light #Symbiosis
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.
-- Richard Meier

#Rome #Cities #Frozen
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.
-- Richard Meier

#Thinking #Space #Light
We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.
-- Richard Meier

#Past #Long #Architecture
To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to do when you grow up?' I said I wanted to be an architect. After 50 years I am still learning all what that means. Working together with so many people has been enormously gratifying. Being an architect means being a member of a fantastic team.
-- Richard Meier

#Dream #Growing Up #Team
I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.
-- Richard Meier

#Thinking #White #Color
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
-- Richard Meier

#Responsibility #Order #Architecture
Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.
-- Richard Meier

#Thinking #People #Architecture

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