The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The architect must not only understand drawing, but music. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I… — Patrick Duffy Copy Share Image
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress. — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and… — Catherine Stock Copy Share Image
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the… — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
I went to visit my father to tell him that I was going to go to college and become an architect -… — Jake Roberts Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest.… — Sterling Beaumon Copy Share Image
A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes… — Christopher Plummer Copy Share Image
One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught… — David Ulevitch Copy Share Image
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
But if you do, then it's a high class problem to have. And if you do, you're the architect of that problem.… — Ryan Reynolds Copy Share Image
A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem - how to give shape to the pile of information in… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
We have feudal governments in a commercial age. It would be but an easy extension of our commercial system, to pay a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I know for me as an artist, I think I do myself and my listeners a disservice, if I don't listen to… — LeCrae Copy Share Image
Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
A good person is one who follows the Ten Commandments and the golden rule. There is plenty of precedent in history to… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image