We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. — Jimmy Breslin Copy Share Image
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you… — Pat Gillick Copy Share Image
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“Queen Isabella III seemed to have been designed by corporate architects, the sort who put doors halfway up walls for aesthetic balance.” — Mjke Wood Copy Share Image
When my kids were younger they hung out with joiners and electricians, but if I asked them what they wanted to be… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
“We don’t yet know the names of the architects who will build the next upgrade to the secret-killing machine. But we’ll know… — Andy Greenberg Copy Share Image
I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians,… — Dries van Noten 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
Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known—that is—that everything is… — John Harwood Copy Share Image
“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and… — Vitruvius Copy Share Image
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery. — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
“Like architects, researchers build models to represent the real world.” — Dahlia K. Remler Copy Share Image
It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
