Architecture Quote by Paul Laffoley

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

— Eduardo Souto de Moura

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

— Paul Laffoley

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

— Christopher Alexander

Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

— Jake Barton

I consider drawings finished works of art, first of all. However, the ideas can be something that can be developed into something larger. I…

— Robert Barry

Seemingly the most easy of crafts, drawing is the one which reveals most tellingly our incapacity to sustain true vision and our acquiescence to…

— Rico Lebrun

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

— Lebbeus Woods

Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing…

— Vik Muniz

Architectural drawing is a language with conventions where the rules can be deliberately misused; a well-composed architectural drawing can both contain correct and incorrect…

— Jimenez Lai

If you have an idea, you have to move on it, to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea…

— Jeff Koons

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

— Henri Matisse

Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea…

— John Emmerling