Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 325 authors

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Unknown Author
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of hard hammering and… — B. C. Forbes
! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take… — Sebastiao Salgado
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where… — David Chipperfield
I am an architect, first. — Hugh Hardy
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere. — Christian de Portzamparc
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts… — Martin Filler
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the… — Moshe Safdie
Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect? — Moshe Safdie
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli… — Moshe Safdie
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at… — Frank Gehry
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. — Renzo Piano
The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being… — Renzo Piano
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the… — Renzo Piano
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate… — Rem Koolhaas
I wanted to be a landscape architect, but I trained as a teacher; I worked in publishing; I was a waitress. — Deborah Moggach
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford - so… — Deborah Moggach
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect… — Hill Harper
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect… — Matthew James Thomas

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