Acceptance Quote by Christopher Alexander

Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.

— Santiago Calatrava

Sometimes when you come from outside a discipline you pay attention to things that insiders take for granted. I admit that sometimes I feel…

— Vito Acconci

Low standards are a tactic that takes pressure off teachers' unions by accepting mediocrity and failure for kids.

— Jeb Bush

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle…

— Cameron Sinclair

When you don't have standards, it's easier to exceed them.

— Jerry Scott

“Standards are just the most accepted ways of doing things. They're usually unquestioned, not challenged, not the most efficient, and not the best way…

— Rick Otton

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That's what today's architecture…

— Ma Yansong

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

I look at my young students, and I no longer have the sense that, oh, I'm the authority and they have to meet a…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

— Rem Koolhaas

If we're going to have standards in schools, let's be honest and have standards.

— Amy Klobuchar

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always…

— Richard Rogers