Architects Quote by Joshua Prince-Ramus

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

Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly…

— Elizabeth Diller

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

— Glenn Murcutt

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

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

— Bernard Tschumi

Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not…

— Friedensreich Hundertwasser

To build means to make architecture real on the borders of knowledge.

— Frei Otto

I describe the design process as like the tip of the iceberg. What you don't see is the long haul: all the endless auditing…

— Norman Foster

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

Architecture is about ideas in the first place. You don't get to design until you have an idea.

— Lebbeus Woods

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