Tschumi Bernard Quotes

#1. I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.

Bernard Tschumi

#2. To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder.

Bernard Tschumi

#3. Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building ... A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

Bernard Tschumi

#4. I have to reinvent myself.

Ted Kulongoski

#5. All big changes of the world come from words.

Marjane Satrapi

#6. I didn't love Jim Morrison 'cause he was self-destructive. I loved him because of his work. Because of the way he merged poetry and rock-and-roll. Because he did something new.

Patti Smith

#7. I was the all-American face. You name it, honey - American Dairy Milk, Metropolitan Life insurance, McDonald's, Burger King. The Face That Didn't Matter - that's what I called my face.

Debra Winger

#8. Instead of helping women in Roe v. Wade, I brought destruction to me & millions of women.

Norma McCorvey

#9. I feel very comfortable in New York, in a city where there is no such thing as 'nationality.'

Bernard Tschumi

#10. My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

Bernard Tschumi

#11. Sometimes the changes in life came at you so fast, and with such fury, there was no way to keep up with reality.

J.R. Ward

#12. I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

Bernard Tschumi

#13. Clutter, either mental or physical, is the sign of a healthy curiosity.

Christopher Fowler

#14. I'm supposed to share the Lord with people. All of us are disciples on some level. You don't have to be behind the podium to tell a story, connect with people and share the Gospel.

Trai Byers

#15. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.

Bjork

#16. Society secretly delights in crime, excesses, and violated prohibitions of all sorts.

Bernard Tschumi

#17. Failure comes only when we forget our ideals and objectives and principles.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#18. This is bizarre," I say.
"I think it's beautiful," he says.
I give him a look.
"What?" He laughs a little. "They each have an equal role in government; they each feel equally responsible. And it makes them care; it makes them kind. I think that's beautiful.

Veronica Roth

#19. The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

Bernard Tschumi

#20. When you are the only laowai in a village of 10,000 Chinese martial artists and you've sat through several dozen films where a white man shouts, "You Chinese dog," before getting his ass kicked, it starts to irritate you. We all need role models.

Matthew Polly

#21. I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

Bernard Tschumi

#22. The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

Bernard Tschumi

#23. Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge.

Bernard Tschumi

#24. Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens.

Bernard Tschumi

#25. When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer have that image, and I mourn it.

Bernard Tschumi

#26. I Have No Faith at All. I Only Hold Convictions

Ayn Rand

#27. I was once in a very, very bad car accident. So my drawing arm is full of pins and platinum stuff. Occasionally it hurts. But I found that after the arm was put back together I could draw better than before. I have no idea why.

Bernard Tschumi

#28. Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Bernard Tschumi