Architectural Quote by Jimenez Lai

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

— Eduardo Souto de Moura

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

— Paul Laffoley

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and…

— Michael Hansmeyer

As technology advances at an alarming pace, the place of drawing remains as valid as ever in the creation of art and architecture.

— Prince Charles

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects…

— Jimenez Lai

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the…

— John French Sloan

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it…

— Frank Gehry

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

— Arthur Erickson

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

— Eero Saarinen

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

— Edgar Degas