As architects we have a responsibility to society

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

— Frank Gehry

We are the architects of our own happiness

— Gerald Causse

Brands must become architects of community.

— Simon Mainwaring

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

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

— Carol Ross Barney

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give…

— Bill Gates

Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence…

— Jonathan Meades

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

— Alain de Botton

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

— Rem Koolhaas

“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and thus, nursed…

— Vitruvius

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

— Dan Brown

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.

— Bill Watterson

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

— Jimmy Breslin

The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the…

— Friedrich Nietzsche