Denise Scott Brown quotes
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“Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.”
-- Denise Scott BrownSource : Interview with Andrea Tamas, www.archdaily.com. August 2009.
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“We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.”
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“Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic.”
-- Denise Scott BrownSource : "Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture". Essay by Denise Scott Brown, in "Architecture: A Place for Women", book edited by Ellen Perry Berkeley and Matilda McQuaid, www.mascontext.com. 1989.
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“At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.”
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“In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’”
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“Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.”
-- Denise Scott BrownSource : "In their own words". www.cnn.com. December 20, 1996.
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Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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Source : "Boundaries And Crossing". Interview with Vered Shemtov, shma.com. March 4, 2004.
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Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com
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