When the materials are all prepared and ready, the…

“Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,…

— Walt Whitman

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.

— Walt Whitman

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

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

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

— Curtis W. Fentress