Architect Quote by Curtis W. Fentress

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people.

— George Clarke

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.

— Joel Coen

A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by architects. They…

— Herbert Muschamp

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

— Peter Zumthor

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

— Louis Kahn

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in…

— Honore de Balzac

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as…

— Walter Gropius

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne

All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or negative effect…

— Leon Krier

A first building is like a first novel, it is always autobiographical.

— Santiago Calatrava