Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 345 authors

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi. — Zakk Wylde
When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance… — Al Yankovic
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it. — Martin Filler
There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect. — Martin Filler
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque… — Martin Filler
Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving… — Martin Filler
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus… — Martin Filler
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than… — Martin Filler
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been… — Martin Filler
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as 'sketches'… — Martin Filler
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional… — Martin Filler
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands of modern-day cultural… — Martin Filler
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever… — Herman Melville
Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than… — Kurt Vonnegut
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without… — Chip Kidd
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he… — Lew Wallace
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny. — David O. McKay
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs

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