Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Hugh Hardy

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American architect Hugh Hardy.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Hugh Hardy was an American architect, known for designing and revitalizing theaters, performing arts venues, public spaces, and cultural facilities across the United States.

American - Architect | 1932 - March 17, 2017

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Please, don't use a cornice as a doorstop. At least put it somewhere where people will have to look up at it. Architectural details really ought to be displayed in the same relation to the viewer as they were originally intended.

Hugh Hardy

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

Hugh Hardy

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.

Hugh Hardy

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

Hugh Hardy

During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.

Hugh Hardy

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Hugh Hardy

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