Able Quote by Marilyn vos Savant

I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically.

— Paul Laffoley

The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know…

— Tadao Ando

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

— Paul Laffoley

You need a blueprint to build a house because you need to know how far the concrete is going to be poured and you…

— Isaiah Washington

You have to do every detail on every bloody piece of the building. You have to know how the engineering works. You have to…

— Frank Gehry

“3. The site • Thoroughly investigate the spaces you are designing for by taking photographs, drawing and measuring. • Measure loading bays and delivery…

— Philip Hughes

I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also models of…

— Leon Battista Alberti

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

— Michael Graves

I love working out how things are made, which is why I have so many models of towers.

— Douglas Coupland

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

— Annie Proulx

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

— John Tenniel

Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

— Lord Byron