Architect Quote by Leon Krier Download Open image “I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.” — Leon Krier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture I can
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you have to… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio. — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
I grew up in a small town that was absolutely a perfect embodiment of new urbanism. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Surprisingly, the Eisenhower Memorial design contains almost none of the known Gehry-box of tricks. His giant etched chain-link curtain, first applied in 1979 to… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
A city can only be reconstructed in the form of urban quarters. A large or a small city can only be reorganized as a… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
You can't have the finest buildings if they're not in focus. They become like nice cars parked on the street. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Tiredness sets a natural limit to what a human being is prepared to walk daily, and this limit has taught man all through history… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Against expectations I was charmed by Gehry's Edgemar development, which housed the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and positively awed by the Bilbao Guggenheim.… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image