1930s Quote by Kenzo Tange

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I…

— Emilio Ambasz

My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul in the…

— Zaha Hadid

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images…

— Ma Yansong

I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the…

— Oscar Niemeyer

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a…

— Antoine Predock

I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It was a…

— Frank Gehry

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I…

— Cesar Pelli

I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.

— Carol Ross Barney

I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word for a…

— Antoine Predock

Since I am a Japanese man who's been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although…

— Tadao Ando

I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you have a…

— Nicole Krauss

For me, one of my personal inspirations was designers in the mid-20th century named Charles and Ray Eames.

— Joe Gebbia