Architect Quote by Peter Clewes

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client…

— Rem Koolhaas

I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations…

— Cesar Pelli

I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong political and…

— Ma Yansong

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

What I learned from architectural drafting is that everything has to have a plan to work. You just can't wing it. I can't get…

— Ice Cube

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.

— Jimenez Lai

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

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

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then…

— Cameron Sinclair

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

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote…

— Thomas Heatherwick

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

— Richard Meier