The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam.… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking,… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch… — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be… — Uell Stanley Andersen Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment. — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
“Si monumentum requiris circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around.) [ Epitaph on Wren's tomb in St. Paul's Cathedral ]” — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general. — Arizona Muse Copy Share Image
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change. — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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