Architect Quote by Renzo Piano

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the…

— Raimund Abraham

Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.

— Arthur Erickson

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is…

— Peter Zumthor

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

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

I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects are often…

— Jimenez Lai

In creating a building, architects do think they're making the world a better place. And then they hope to make the world an even…

— Jonathan Meades

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and…

— Michael Hansmeyer

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

— Lebbeus Woods

Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful, to put…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that…

— Louis Kahn

Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I come in…

— Thom Mayne