Ability Quote by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client…

— Rem Koolhaas

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house,…

— Robert A. M. Stern

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects.…

— Ai Weiwei

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

Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of successful design…

— Roger K. Lewis

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of…

— Peter Zumthor

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our culture's myths…

— Arthur Erickson

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

— Richard Rogers

All clients think that they are architects.

— Annabelle Selldorf

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

— Curtis W. Fentress