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“The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a…

— Tom McDonough

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in…

— Walter Gropius

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

— Richard Neutra

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural…

— Henry David Thoreau

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do not know,…

— Robert Andrews Millikan

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

— Elizabeth Bowen

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

— Igor Stravinsky

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple…

— Le Corbusier

An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a poet... this…

— Louis Sullivan