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Architectural Quotes and Scale Figures

February 18, 2013 by Bob Borson 20 Comments

Today’s post was born out of necessity …

I needed to prepare some new scale figures and I needed to spend some time outside since it was 70 degrees and sunny this weekend. The result is today’s post in which I sketched up and scanned in my favorite 1970’s era scale figures (which are a tad bit sexist but amuse me none-the-less) and joined them together with some inspirational design quotes.

There are, of course, thousands of quotes that are inspirational but you might be surprised how many of those are incredibly wordy…

In that vein, I will cut today’s post short and simply leave you with a handful of phrases that I find worth remembering –

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Design Quotes - Edwin Lutyens

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Design Quotes - Charles Eames

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Design Quotes - Julia Morgan

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Design Quotes - Mies van der Rohe

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Design Quotes - Frank Lloyd Wright

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Design Quotes - Jeanne Gang

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Design Quotes - Sir Norman Foster

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Design Quotes - Frank Gehry

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Design Quotes - Thom Mayne

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Design Quote - until something darker comes out copy

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PS – don’t be surprised if you find these on a t-shirt soon … my server bill is coming due.

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Cheers,

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