Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence,… — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
The world is too complicated in all parts and interconnections to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence… — Allan Sandage Copy Share Image
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea.… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished.… — Mirabel Osler 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
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
