Architect Quote by Jean Nouvel

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with…

— Moshe Safdie

There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is…

— Rem Koolhaas

My homes are similar in style because the same design principles run through all areas of my work.

— John Rocha

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

— Minoru Yamasaki

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

I think different designers have different points of view and different strong personalities can influence the way certain cities are perceived.

— Michael Bierut

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

— Ettore Sottsass

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range…

— Michael Ende

Every home, office, club, yacht, landscape, or piece of furniture I may design will be different from the other. What will be consistent, however,…

— Gauri Khan

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or…

— Minoru Yamasaki