Architects Quotes

169 quotes by 127 authors

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance of considering humans… — Unknown Author
In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
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
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
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
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
This great Mughal Emperor [Akbar] was illiterate; he could neither read nor write. However, that had not stopped Akbar from cultivating the acquaintance of the… — Unknown Author
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see… — Herbert Hoover
Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in a vacuum. To… — Unknown Author
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. — Rem Koolhaas
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

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