Aldo Rossi quotes
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“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”
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“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory.”
-- Aldo RossiSource : Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman (1982). “Architettura Della Città”, p.130, MIT Press
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“What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.”
-- Aldo Rossi
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“Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.”
Source : Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon
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“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
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“Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.”
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“I'm always studying my craft because I want to be the best at what I do.”
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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn”
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