Rafael Moneo quotes

Rafael Moneo quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.”
-- Rafael Moneo

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“Buildings are always better than drawings and models.”
-- Rafael Moneo

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“I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.”
-- Rafael Moneo

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“Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.”
“You can teach taste, editorial sense, but the ability to say something funny is something I've never been able to teach anyone.”
“The essay form has superceded the novel as the vehicle that best suggests the prevailing apocalyptic gestalt, and as the talisman that is most able to repel the onset of paralysing dread.”
“But I was only a chaotic walker, nobody could stop me; even a totalitarian state was not able to control my daydreams, my poetic fascinations, the pattern of my walking.”
“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.”
“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.
“Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity.”
“By your hand, millions - billions - of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day.”
“If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably collapse the whole system.”

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