This world I like, we are architects in life.

“Like architects, researchers build models to represent the real world.”

— Dahlia K. Remler

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

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

“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