Brit Andresen:
"Alvar Aalto used to say to a student who
was designing a window, 'well, make that window as though your lover was
sitting in it.'"
Glenn Murcutt:
"To have a perfect space, you require a
perfect human. There’s no such animal but there are spaces that work
beautifully."
Greg Burgess:
"Architecture that can bring the senses to
life or awaken our senses, awaken our souls, if you like, is very
important."
Brit Andresen:
"One could completely lose
sight of the fact that the register for all architecture is the human
being."
Richard Leplastrier:
"An original work can only come if you
understand what the origins of things are."
Sean Godsell:
"Good architects are great listeners. But at
at some point the synergy between a client with courage and an architect
with vision happens, and the architect’s free. And when that happens,
you get great buildings. And without that, you don’t get great
buildings. So the client is the essential catalyst."
Richard Leplastrier:
"To go to the Opera House to a
performance lifts everybody, it’s something to do with the public having
a sense of pride and ownership in their public buildings."
Paul Keating:
"Architects are in love with grey. I don't
know why it is, but they are. Grey and white are their favourite
colours."
Sean Godsell:
"Art is struggle. If for no good reason we
all caved in then fine, we’d still have buildings, but that would be in
defiance of the human spirit and the history of humanity where we’ve
always pursued to emulate nature through art."
Howard Raggatt:
"It's quite often the case that things
appear ugly, that is, we're unused to them, or they're a bit different
to our expectations or something like that at a particular time. Just a
few years later, they may well be seen as beautiful in other words, our
eye is constantly shifting."
James Legge:
"I think something ugly is just as worthy of
preservation as something beautiful. I think there’s also an
establishment’s view of what beauty is and what is worthy of
preservation... which tends to be limited."
Howard Raggatt:
"The great tradition of architecture is
that the first one probably wasn't all that good, and the second one
probably wasn't all that good either, but you know, by the time you got
to the fiftieth Gothic cathedral, they were really doing some good work.
So, really the idea of the copy in architecture is much more pervasive
than the original is, and yet avant gardeism I suppose, or modernism,
seems to have always focussed on this... the 'one off'.
Glenn Murcutt:
"Architecture must be more than a one liner.
It must be like the onion that you take one layer off and there is
another layer and yet another layer and another layer, so it must be
operating at many levels. It simply can’t be texture on a
facade."
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