“Love of ruins for an architect, he claimed, was quite natural, at least after a long career.” — Josip Novakovich Copy Share Image
Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An architect has to build the building from the inside out, not the outside in! — Luigi Colani Copy Share Image
When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition… — Micky Dolenz Copy Share Image
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the cost-performance ratio of the product will depend most heavily on the implementer, just as ease of use depends most heavily… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want… — David Amram 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
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts.… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance… — Sim Van der Ryn Copy Share Image
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I cannot prevent anyone from getting angry, or mad, or frustrated. I can only hope that they'll turn that anger and frustration… — Harvey Milk 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
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
For me, architects and film directors operate similarly. They are practical. As an architect, you know what you want in the conception… — Apichatpong Weerasethakul Copy Share Image
The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Let everything in creation draw you to God. Refresh your mind with some innocent recreation and needful rest, if it were only… — Paul of the Cross Copy Share Image
Working with Monk brought me close to a musical architect of the highest order. I felt I learned from him in every… — John Coltrane Copy Share Image