Architect Quotes

479 quotes by 345 authors

Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use… — Helmut Jahn
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We donâ€™t value architecture, we donâ€™t take it seriously, we donâ€™t want to pay for it and the architect… — David Chipperfield
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits, — Steven Holl
This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been… — John Taylor Gatto
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. — William H. Whyte
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed… — Parker Stevenson
I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel — Parker Stevenson
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. — John Prebble
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. — Janet Echelman
At this day . . . the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds, minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of… — John Calvin
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. — Terry McMillan
We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes… — Robert M. Hensel
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all, as now completely… — R. Buckminster Fuller
The self-commissioned architect is the obviously exclusive potential - for as at present used, or designed, the world's resources are serving only forty-four per cent… — R. Buckminster Fuller
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total… — R. Buckminster Fuller
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our… — Khalil Gibran
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.… — John Milton
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny. — William James

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