ARQUITECTOS CON MENTALIDAD VERDE
Ken Yeang"I'm an ecologist first, "Good architecture is green architecture, but green architecture isn't necessarily good architecture." |
William McDonough"If we think about things having multiple lives, cradle to cradle, we could design things that can go back to either nature or back to industry forever" "Less bad is not good, we need to be effective not efficient." |
Norman Foster“My mission is to create a structure that is sensitive to the culture and climate of its place.” "It wasn’t about fashion, it was about survival … green is fantastic …” |
Richard Rogers"The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of environment, is to get everybody involved" "There is no way I am going back there, I was looking for an excuse to get out and that was it." |
Renzo Piano"Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well" |
Glenn Murcutt"Abounds false eco-architecture, to design we must understand the nature cycles of each region" "Touch the earth lightly" |
Brenda&Robert Vale"We're trying to point out that some of the issues that we face in terms of a sustainable future are going to be very difficult to think about, and they're not going to be things you don't notice, like changing your light bulbs. They're going to be things that require you to make difficult and sort of stressful decisions." "The sustainability begins at home" |
Michael Hopkins"Long before it became recognised as a global necessity, we worked to devise long-lasting, economically-viable solutions that help save materials and energy, reduce waste and that holistically enhance and integrate with a coherent architectural expression." |
Shigeru BanI wonder, What is a permanent building and what is a temporary building? Even a building made in paper can be permanent as long as people love it. Even concrete building can be very temporary if that is made to make money. |
Bill Dunster"I am always pushing the boundaries to try to advance the construction industry's approach to low-carbon, low-impact buildings and to make the technologies and thinking more accessible to all." |
Mike ReynoldsWhen I first started doing it, people thought I was crazy. When I told an engineer I was building a house out of beer cans, he told me I was a disgrace to the architectural profession. |
Gernot Minke"I started to build with straw 30 years ago and I'm still fascinated" |
Frank Lloyd Wright"Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you" "Buildings, too, are children of Earth and Sun." |
Buckminster Fuller"Don't fight with forces, use them" "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty, but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." |
Victor Olgyay"Just as in physics, knowledge of the shape leads to the interpretation of the forces that have shaped, and at other times, the knowledge of the forces is leading us to better understand the interior of the forms " |
Hassan Fathy"We need a new way of knowledge. The enforced academic knowledge of schools has alienated us from nature just as industrialisation by force has taken away the possibilities of our participating in satisfying our needs." |