Alexander Jackson Davis quotes

“I am but an architectural composer.”
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

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“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
-- Alexander Jackson Davis

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“One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.”

“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 have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”

“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.

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

“I always work with the same composer, his name is Ali Helnwein. I don't have a musical background.”

Source : "Alex Prager Predicts Disaster". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 29, 2012.

“I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.”

“The first requirement for a composer is to be dead.”

Source : 'Je suis compositeur' (1951) p. 16

“Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.”

“I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.”