Architects Quotes

169 Architects quotes by 127 unique authors

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry
Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality. — Richard Neutra
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. — Ben Nicholson
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate… — Walter Gropius
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and… — Rachel Maddow
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects… — Thom Mayne
L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture… — Dylan Walsh
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of wood… — Leon Battista Alberti
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this… — Bernard Arnault
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. — Ted Dexter
As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future… — Michael Arad
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future. — Harry S. Truman
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects.… — Leon Krier
Architects design houses. I live in a home. — Peter Eisenman
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is… — Jan Gehl
We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures… — Charlie Pierce
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch and Erich Pommer.… — Ken Adam
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. — Philip Johnson
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would… — Philip Johnson

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