Alvaro Siza Vieira quotes

Alvaro Siza Vieira quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Tradition is a challenge to innovation..”
-- Alvaro Siza Vieira

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“Every design is a rigorous attempt to capture a concrete moment of a transitory image in all its nuances. The extent to which this transitory quality is captured, is reflected in the designs: the more precise they are, the more vulnerable.”
-- Alvaro Siza Vieira

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“I'm always looking for challenges.”

Source : "Q&A with ... Packers QB Aaron Rodgers: 'Let's go get another one'". Interview with Vinnie Iyer, www.sportingnews.com. February 7, 2011.
“There is a self-love solution for every challenge.”
“Young people often serve as scapegoats for the challenges communities face. At the same time, they are routinely pushed away from connecting to their communities as serious problem-solvers capable of changing the world.”
“There are a lot of things not going well for Microsoft right now - Microsoft reorganization appears to be rearranging the chairs on the Titanic.”
“Innovations to which we are not committed are illuminating things.”
“If we can embrace the adventure and risk and equip our churches to lay down their lives and abandon their inherent loss-aversion, who knows what innovation, what freshness, what new insights from the Spirit will emerge.”

Source : Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch (2011). “The Faith of Leap (Shapevine): Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage”, p.151, Baker Books
“Young players expose themselves to grave risks when they blindly imitate the innovations of masters without themselves first checking all the details and consequences of these innovations.”
“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”
“I am but an architectural composer.”
“Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.”

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