Architecture Quote by Henry Petroski

Engineers are not the only professional designers. Everyone designs who devises courses of action aimed at changing existing situations into preferred ones. The intellectual…

— Herbert Simon

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is…

— Peter Zumthor

The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting, sculpture, architecture...…

— Michelangelo

“It's the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical…

— Cory Althoff

Everything we do is designed, whether we're producing a magazine, a website, or a bridge. Design is really the creative invention that designs everything.

— Henry Petroski

“In order to understand how engineers endeavor to insure against such structural, mechanical, and systems failures, and thereby also to understand how mistakes can…

— Henry Petroski

The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure…

— Jean Nouvel

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

— Jake Barton

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can…

— Jonathan Meades

The process of design starts with exploration, but ends with refinement. The best designers carefully move from one to the other, making sure they…

— Jared Spool

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

— Ettore Sottsass

I don't design. I don't paint. I absolutely never touch my works.

— Maurizio Cattelan