Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Ralph Thomas Walker

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Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Ralph Thomas Walker

Ralph Thomas Walker FAIA was an American architect, president of the American Institute of Architects and partner of the firm McKenzie, Voorhees, Gmelin; and its successor firms Voorhees, Gmelin & Walker, Voorhees, Walker, Foley & Smith; Voorhees, Walker, Smith & Smith; and Voorhees, Walker, Smith, Smith & Haines. Walker is best known for his designs for the Barclay–Vesey Building (1922–26) and 1 Wall Street (1928–31), but was also involved in numerous other Art Deco telecommunications buildings in the New York City area.

I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy. — © Ralph Thomas Walker
I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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