Richard Meier Quotes

#1. An important work of architecture will create polemics.

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#2. We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante, Borromini, and Bernini. Architecture is a tradition, a long continuum. Whether we break with tradition or enhance it, we are still connected to that past. We evolve.

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#3. When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible.

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#4. The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

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#5. Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

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#6. When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.

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#7. Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

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#8. Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

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#9. I think white is the most wonderful color of all, because within it one can find every color of the rainbow.

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#10. The stunted pines elude capture
in a thousand sidetracked increments.
The wind will never understand them.
Like us it is forced to go on.

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