Architect Quotes · Page 11

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

— Christopher Alexander

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

— Walter Gropius

The team I have to work with at Loewe is incredible, from the architect to the archivist.

— Jonathan Anderson

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.

— Appius Claudius Caecus

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

— Shigeru Ban

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

— Samuel

The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.

— Jules Verne

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

— Walter Gropius

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs…

— Michael Graves

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

— Toyo Ito

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

— Martin Filler

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art…

— Frank Gehry

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future.

— Jomo Kenyatta

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him…

— Quintilian

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between…

— Jimenez Lai

In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world…

— Jonathan Meades

I wanted to be an archaeologist. But in school you have to take a tremendous amount of statistics for that, and I…

— Sloane Crosley

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the…

— Cameron Sinclair

Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have…

— Cameron Sinclair

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it…

— Abraham Lincoln

Buildings are seldom just buildings in downtown Chicago, they are Examples, and not a city on Earth, I swear, is as knowledgeably…

— Jan Morris

We have already considered with disfavour the possibility of the universe having been planned by a biologist or an engineer; from the…

— James Jeans

When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you…

— David Chipperfield

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

— Frank Lloyd Wright

As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.

— Renzo Piano

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

— Carol Ross Barney

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

— Boyd Holbrook

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

— Rem Koolhaas

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.

— Peter Eisenman

The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

— Little Richard

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

— Renzo Piano

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I…

— Thom Mayne

The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to…

— Elliot W. Eisner

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

— Doc Childre

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

— Robert A. M. Stern

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

— Norman Foster

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you…

— Pat Gillick

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

— Plutarch