Architecture Quote by George Clarke

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

— Mario Bellini

I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to…

— Luke Macfarlane

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I…

— Cesar Pelli

“Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known—that is—that everything is architecture. Charles…

— John Harwood

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as…

— Roger Waters

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

— Carol Ross Barney

A chair is the first thing you need when you don’t really need anything, and is therefore a peculiarly compelling symbol of civilization. For…

— Ralph Caplan

I first decided architecture was for me when I saw Le Corbusier's designs in a Japanese magazine in the 1930s.

— Kenzo Tange

I've become much more interested in architecture than I've ever been.

— Paula Scher

People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.

— Arne Jacobsen

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the…

— Oscar Niemeyer

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…

— Philip Johnson