Civil engineer Quote by Michael Arad

I want labor to be the point, because everything in our lives is miraculously made with no idea of how it's done. As an…

— Tom Sachs

Invariably, what I'm trying to do is more ambitious than the budget, but we manage to do it somehow.

— Terry Gilliam

First we need to decide what needs to be done. Then we do it. And then we ask if it is possible.

— Paul Hawken

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own.

— Robin Boyd

Effective steps must be taken toward reforming the structure

— Ahmed Hashim

No one is going to tell you what to build. If they did, then they should do it, not you.

— Hosain Rahman

For most Builders, the journey is like shooting for the moon and instead hitting Mars-perhaps a better, but different outcome than envisioned. Builders are…

— Jerry I. Porras

We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have to respond…

— Peter Clewes

I decided to set out to prove that you could make a reasonable living building for the poor using recycled materials and only hiring…

— Dan Phillips

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

“For it to be successful, the architect must • remember that the builder has the inventive and creative responsibility for the implementation; so the…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr