Architect Quote by Jimenez Lai

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

— Toyo Ito

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our…

— David Chipperfield

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

— Jimenez Lai

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client…

— Rem Koolhaas

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

— Richard Neutra

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions…

— Lebbeus Woods

I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes out of…

— Evan Sharp

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that…

— Rafael Vinoly

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

— Moshe Safdie

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

“… that architecture’s dependency, far from being its weakness, becomes its opportunity, with the architect acting as open-minded listener and feet-footed interpreter, collaborating in…

— Jeremy Till