Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 345 authors

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're… — Robert A. M. Stern
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. — Alexander Jackson Davis
Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. — Jimmy Breslin
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics… — John C. Portman, Jr.
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. — Toyo Ito
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. — Shigeru Ban
If an architect's ego is very small, he is done for it; if it is vast then he might make some very important contributions. — Paolo Soleri
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." — Emilio Ambasz
The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. — Benjamin Haydon
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its… — Benjamin Disraeli
Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done. — Larry McVoy
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Auroville (City of Dawn) is an 'experimental' township in Viluppuram district in the state of Tamil Nadu, India near Puducherry in South India. It was… — Mirra Alfassa
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are of the Ramshackle… — Ambrose Bierce
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to… — Nancy Banks-Smith
Just how we fit into the plans of the Great Architect and how much He has assigned us to do, we do not know, but… — Robert Andrews Millikan
I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing. — Justin Bieber
There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man.… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts… — Che Guevara

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