Architect Quote by Kenzo Tange

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

— Helmut Jahn

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

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to…

— Philip Johnson

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle…

— Cameron Sinclair

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

— Richard Neutra

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody…

— Thom Mayne

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

I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong political and…

— Ma Yansong

“… architects are not acting for themselves but on behalf of others, and this means acting ethically. It is to ethics that we now turn.”

— Jeremy Till

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain…

— Richard Rogers

As architects we have a responsibility to society

— Richard Rogers

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler