Arne Jacobsen
Arne Jacobsen
Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIAwas a Danish architect and designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural Functionalism as well as for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple but effective chair designs...
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth11 February 1902
Arne Jacobsen quotes about
long done architecture
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
school thinking training
Besides, I think that when one has been through a boarding school, especially then, you have some resistance, because it was both fine comradeship and a fairly hard training.
usa america cost
I am going to be working on bathroom fittings for a company in the USA, and then I thought it was appropriate to simplify the fittings and, thus, lowering the cost.
grandma hands quality
On the other hand, I don't understand the enthusiasm for everything in the antique shop that Grandma threw out. There, the sense of quality has declined; otherwise Grandma wouldn't have thrown it out
relaxation today modern
That business of relaxation, which is so terribly modern today, is all good and well, but my work interests me so much, and is so varied, that many times it seems relaxing when I go from one aspect to another.
architecture gothic-architecture
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
children thinking parent
But I think that parents who criticise their children too much are in fact better than parents who praise their children too much.
mars done environment
Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.
art house tasks
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult task - is always that of selecting.
years house years-ago
None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago
inspiration home years
But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.
design proportion factors
The primary factor is proportions.
nice long mind
A pastry usually tastes better if it looks nice. A cream pastry, now that looks nice - in fact, there is nothing I mind as long as it looks nice.
goal might hard
Carrying out the thing, getting it to the point when one might say: There, now it is good - that point is hard to reach. Often, one sets very high goals for oneself. Perhaps too high.