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
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
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
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
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
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
A lot of society tries to put people with disabilities into one cube, and when you think about it, many, many people… — Itzhak Perlman 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
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
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
I inherited this collection of vinyl records, which at that time numbered 6,000, and I've since continued to collect music. As you… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
Like a trail that a snail leaves in its wake as it inches forward, over the years an architect leaves behind a… — Charles Correa 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
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
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
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
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in.… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I may live in London, but I'll go back to the country one day. My dad's an architect, so I would like… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect's task - his… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica. — David Carson Copy Share Image
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client… — Fumihiko Maki Copy Share Image
I think that whatever you do, if you're a singer, a rapper, an architect, dentist, treat that like when you're doing it,… — Eric Benet Copy Share Image
Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done. — Larry McVoy Copy Share Image
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image