Architect Quote by Santiago Calatrava

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands…

— John Ruskin

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

— Annabelle Selldorf

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty…

— Christian de Portzamparc

We need architects to be visionaries.

— Ma Yansong

The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created by those,…

— Jean Nouvel

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

— Frank Gehry

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.

— Thom Mayne

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

— Walter Gropius

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

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

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as…

— Louis Sullivan

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group…

— Oscar Niemeyer