Carlo Scarpa quotes

“If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.”
-- Carlo Scarpa

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“Quiet descended, a silence so consuming that even the drafty corridors ceased whistling. Bog wasn't certain where to look, so he solved the problem by plucking out his eyes and sticking them in a drawer.”

Source : A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.277, Macmillan

“Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress.”

“Directors, producers can make you look good or make you look bad.”

“Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and beauty.”

Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (2010). “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”, p.43, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

“Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.”

“We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.”

“True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.”

Source : Alvar Aalto, Peter Reed, Kenneth Frampton, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1998). “Alvar Aalto: between humanism and materialism”, ABRAMS

“It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.”

Source : "Aalto in Finland" by R.W. Apple, Jr., www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.

“feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal”

“I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.”