Particularly in the past fifty years the world has…

I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I…

— Parker Stevenson

“Designer Charles Eames, arguably the quintessential Renaissance Man of the twentieth century, used to complain good-naturedly that he devoted only about one percent of…

— David Bayles

Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than…

— Andre Malraux

We are the architects of our own happiness

— Gerald Causse

“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can…

— Kyung-sook Shin

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the…

— Ma Yansong

Brands must become architects of community.

— Simon Mainwaring

Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.

— Santiago Calatrava

“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power,” Ban said recently. “Power and money are invisible, so people hire us…

— Anonymous

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between architects, conservationists,…

— David Chipperfield

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

— Ma Yansong

In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.

— Julian Treasure

“Queen Isabella III seemed to have been designed by corporate architects, the sort who put doors halfway up walls for aesthetic balance.”

— Mjke Wood

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

— Carol Ross Barney

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress