Architect Quote by Michael Hansmeyer

Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make…

— Maya Lin

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or…

— Frank Gehry

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

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it…

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to…

— Thom Mayne

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

— Toyo Ito

Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity…

— Shigeru Ban

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long…

— Joshua Prince-Ramus

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

— Lebbeus Woods

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

The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect possesses keeps…

— Santiago Calatrava