When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of… — David Richo Copy Share Image
“[The building] had been designed by an architect, so it bore little resemblance to any normal structure.” — Gary Corby Copy Share Image
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
My dad was an architect, and he wasn't a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He… — Kevin Bacon Copy Share Image
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and… — Charlie Pierce Copy Share Image
Some men go through life absolutely miserable because, despite the most enormous achievement, they just didn't do one thing-like the architect who… — Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft Copy Share Image
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with… — Michael Atiyah Copy Share Image
My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers,… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Sunken gardens should be laid out under the supervision of an intelligent landscape architect; and even then should have a reason for… — Alice Morse Earle Copy Share Image
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want… — David Amram Copy Share Image
Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either. — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the cost-performance ratio of the product will depend most heavily on the implementer, just as ease of use depends most heavily… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked.… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that… — Barry Schuler Copy Share Image
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
There are all sorts of ways a leader can foster interactive teaching and learning if he starts thinking, Where do I socially… — Noel Tichy Copy Share Image
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an… — Courteney Cox Copy Share Image
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. — Hugh Sidey Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making -… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image