Architecture Quote by Ole Thorstensen

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not…

— Prince Charles

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window…

— David Chipperfield

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that…

— Rafael Vinoly

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

— Ma Yansong

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

— Toyo Ito

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

— Richard Neutra

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it…

— Philip Johnson

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

— Rem Koolhaas

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

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of…

— Joseph Kosinski

I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore.

— Marcel Wanders