Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like…

— Richard Meier

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

— Norman Foster

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his most difficult…

— Arne Jacobsen

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

— Norman Foster

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the…

— Anonymous

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

— Carol Ross Barney

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,…

— Chip Kidd

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the…

— Santiago Calatrava

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their…

— Shigeru Ban

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

— Anonymous

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

— Luis Barragan