There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
My dad's an architect and my mom owned a French bakery for twelve years — Alison Lohman 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
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
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
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
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked.… — Peter Lerangis Copy Share Image
“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes."… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe.… — RZA Copy Share Image
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It wasn't an architect who did this, but if it had been an architect, it would have been a good day's work:… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
The music of the supreme architect, Bach, is filled with pages of discursive argument and rumination, glorifying the nameless whole by a… — Russell Sherman Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a… — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image
