Frank O. Gehry’s Sketches (3)

DG Bank Building (Berlin, Germany)

"I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination; I am able to transfer a sketch into a model into the building".

"I spend a lot more time with clients than people could guess. Because I think that is the way we move forward and they get what they want and they feel comfortable about it. It is a process that lets them know you're listening to what their problems are. But it also is a process that creates the opportunities for invention, because it is that interaction that makes it exciting and rich. And I love the process most of all, the people process÷better than the final building actually."

Frank O. Gehry’s Sketches (2)

Guggenheim Museum /Bilbao

"As soon as I understand the scale of the building and the relationship to the site and the relationship to the client, as it becomes more and more clear to me, I start doing sketches".FOG

Santiago Calatrava's Sketches (2)

Turning Torso (Malmö, Sweden)

"There was a wish to get something exceptional," Calatrava said after accepting a prize from local authorities. "I also wanted to deliver something technically unique."

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Jørn Utzon's Sketches

Sydney Opera House (Sydney, Australia)

Jørn Utzon said: “It (the naming) gives me the greatest pleasure and satisfaction. I don’t think you can give me more joy as the Architect. It supersedes any medal of any kind that I could get and have got.”

"On the road from the first idea - the first sketch - to the final building, a host of possibilities arise for the architect and the team of engineers, contractors and artisans. Only when the foundation for the choice between the various solutions derives from the awareness that the building must provide the people who are to live in it with delight and inspiration do the correct solutions to the problems fall like ripe fruits."

Glenn Murcutt's Sketches

The Marika-Alderton House

Yirrkala Community, Eastern Amheim Land, Northern Territory, Australia

Murcutt says, "A building should be able to open up and say, 'I am alive and looking after my people,' or instead, 'I'm closed now, and I'm looking after my people as well.' This to me is the real issue, buildings should respond."

"They should open and close and modify and re-modify, and blinds should turn and open and close, open a little bit without complication. That is a part of architecture for me; all this makes a building live."

Zvi Hecker's Sketches

The Spiral (Ramat-Gan, Israel)

"It is a work of incomplete precision. Because it is so precise it can't be really finished. No limit to the precision one can achieve. The Spirals incompleteness is also its poetry, because poetry is the most precise expression of our need for precision. Expressive as it is, the Spiral can't be fully understood. "

"It speaks to many languages at once and at the same time. It speaks Arabic about human condition. It argues in Hebrew in the sheer necessity to bring the muscles and materials together, but it is quite fluent in Russian when construction becomes architecture. Its Italian is very Baroque, as spoken in Piemont by Guarino Guarini. The Spiral is a tower of Babel in miniature. "

Santiago Calatrava's Sketches

Oriente Station, Lisbon

"Being both an architect and an engineer, I am fascinated by a building's framework and that fascination is visually communicated in my projects. The use of laminated glass, with its transparent or translucent nature, in the facades and roofs of projects like the St Exupery (France) and Orient (Lisbon) train stations provides a strong aesthetic contrast to the opacity of the concrete and structural steel frameworks. "

"My frequent use of laminated glass, particularly in roofing, enables natural light to penetrate inside large-scale projects. Laminated glass is legislated for glass roofing applications in most countries of the world for safety reasons. Again, because of its safety, laminated glass is an ideal material to use for facades that interface constantly with crowds of people, whether they be commuters or art gallery visitors."

Louis Kahn's Sketches

Sher-E-Bangladesh Nagar: National Capital of Bangladesh Assembly Hall

"You can never learn anything that is not a part of yourself."

“A work of art tells us that nature cannot make what man can make.”

Frank O. Gehry’s Sketches

Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA, California)

"A lot of collaborative effort went into the design of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. The auditorium, has carefully followed the program provided by the Los Angeles Philharmonic," said Gehry.

"The Philharmonic, one of the world's finest orchestras, and the Los Angeles Master Chorale, the largest and most esteemed choral organization of its kind in the United States - these will be the users and the people who will bring life to this building."

Mario Botta's Sketches

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

"In a contemporary city," says Mario Botta, "the museum is elevated to the status of a new cathedral, a place for the memory of and relationship with other epochs, as filtered through the works of art exhibited. But it is also an urban focus."

"Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand," Botta says. "Today museums are too large inside."

Source: GoneWild