Hugh Hardy quotes

“Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.”
-- Hugh Hardy

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“During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.”
-- Hugh Hardy

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“When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.”
-- Hugh Hardy

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“Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.”
-- Hugh Hardy

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“There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.”
-- Hugh Hardy

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“Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive.”

“Obviously, in dealing with a relationship, sexuality has to be involved, and jealousy and emotions like that. And I don't know, I've always been intrigued by those emotions.”

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“Much of what we call emotion is nothing more or less than a certain kind - a biased, prejudiced, or strongly evaluative kind - of thought.”

“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

“I am but an architectural composer.”

“Tradition is a challenge to innovation..”

“Artists don't make objects. Artists make mythologies.”

“My first wife was a theater person.”

“I love working in New York theater.”

“Originally, theater was my life. It was what I assumed I'd spend my working life doing - if I was lucky. Then along came movies.”