Architect Quote by Lebbeus Woods

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is…

— Peter Zumthor

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

— Lebbeus Woods

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only…

— Renzo Piano

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the…

— Raimund Abraham

Any sort of working drawings are simply diagrams. Architecture encourages your imagination to work that way.

— Paul Laffoley

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find what the idea was…

— Cecily Brown

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

— Tom T. Hall

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

— Henri Matisse

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

— Saul Steinberg

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

— Frei Otto

When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit…

— Yoshio Taniguchi