Architect Quote by Rem Koolhaas Download Open image “Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.” — Rem Koolhaas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architect Architecture Luxury Rejects Significant
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people. — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Architects are 'dismissive' of the people who turn their designs into building. And indecisive clients who have read too many design magazines all end… — Ole Thorstensen Copy Share Image
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we did it… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The architect is very interesting because the architect is the commander, meaning the one who commands all the workers. The architect is also the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect;… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond,… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride - humility in the weight of those great American architects… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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