Architect Quote by Jonathan Meades

In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even…

— Jonathan Meades

Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years. And it's…

— Peter Marino

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote…

— Thomas Heatherwick

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

— Toyo Ito

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

— Kenzo Tange

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of…

— Rem Koolhaas

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of…

— Norman Foster

As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.

— Santiago Calatrava

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly…

— Martin Filler

Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes." My dear…

— Ayn Rand

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

— John Pawson