Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 345 authors

The ultimate aim of all artistic activity is building! ... Architects, sculptors, painters, we must all get back to craft! ... The artist is a… — Walter Gropius
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. — Walter Gropius
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was,… — Louis Kahn
Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light.Â Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch, they are satisfied… — Louis Kahn
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments… — Henry David Thoreau
An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist. — Sol LeWitt
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was… — Christopher Durang
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new… — Zaha Hadid
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. — Kenzo Tange
Iâ€™m a passionate architect... I do not work for money — Peter Zumthor
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and… — Jean Nouvel
To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do you want to… — Richard Meier
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power… — Shigeru Ban
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a… — Daniel Libeskind
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope. — Henry Ward Beecher
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. — Harold Wilson
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Gratitude is an attitude that hooks us up to our source of supply. And the more grateful you are, the closer you become to your… — Bob Proctor
I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses. — Neri Oxman

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