I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
“Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [ Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral ]” — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling Copy Share Image
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people. — Brian Webb Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Dealing with people is probably the biggest problem you face, especially if you are in business. Yes, and that is also true… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard Copy Share Image
We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to… — Robert M. Hensel Copy Share Image
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry Copy Share Image
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam.… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image