Joshua Prince-Ramus Quotes

#1. It's time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things.

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#2. Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

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#3. When I went to college, I thought I was going to become a professional musician. I was a French horn player, so I went to Yale to study with a very unusual French horn player.

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#4. Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

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#5. It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

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#6. I always wanted to do something creative, but as much as I'm creative, it's in a really hard-core, right-brained way. For me, painting doesn't do it for me. There's no constraint.

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#7. 'Form follows function' comes with so much baggage. It's a worthless phrase because you'll never take it for what it means.

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#8. Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.

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#9. Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space.

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#10. Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

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#11. Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

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