Architecture Quote by Sam Newman

As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most successful architectures…

— Jesse James Garrett

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle…

— Cameron Sinclair

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

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the…

— Anonymous

Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we feel perfectly…

— Elizabeth Diller

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

— Toyo Ito

The nature of design is to synthesize disparate perspectives and create a richer end product through collaboration and iteration.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

— Harry Seidler

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

— Bjarke Ingels

I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and find the…

— Ma Yansong

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions…

— Rem Koolhaas

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

— Richard Rogers