Accounts Quote by Christopher Plummer

It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

— Alvar Aalto

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How…

— Jeremy Renner

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then…

— Cameron Sinclair

“Architecture forms a vital link between people and their surroundings. It acts as a gentle buffer between the fragility of human existence and the…

— Kengo Kuma

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

Good architecture lets nature in.

— Mario Pei

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

— Richard Meier

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

— Walter Gropius

It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what,…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin