Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect. — Frank Lloyd Wright
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. — John Prebble
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos
Architecture begins where engineering ends. — Walter Gropius
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier
An architect does not need to spend his whole career making monuments for rich people. — Shigeru Ban
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Colleen Barrett
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind
Architect Image Quotes
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. — Rem Koolhaas
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. — Harold Wilson
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. — Richard Rogers
Architecture Quotes
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall. — Louis Kahn
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. — Zaha Hadid
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. — Zaha Hadid
Architectural Design Quotes
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. — Tadao Ando
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. — Walter Gropius
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. — Tadao Ando
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
and the richness with which this is experienced. — John Pawson
It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. — William H. Whyte
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before the building was built. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs
I used to not like being called a 'woman architect.' I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. The guys used to tap me on the head and say 'you're OK for a girl.' But I see an incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it can be done, so I don't mind anymore. — Zaha Hadid
If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe. — Paul Bocuse
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy cities. It is equally urgent to strengthen the social function of city space as a meeting place that contributes toward the aims of social sustainability and an open and democratic society. — Jan Gehl
I am the way into the city of woe.
I am the way to a forsaken people.
I am the way into eternal sorrow.
Sacred justice moved my architect.
I was raised here by divine omnipotence,
Primordial love and ultimate intellect.
Only those elements time cannot wear
Were made before me, and beyond time I stand.
Abandon all hope ye who enter here. — Dante Alighieri
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots. — I. M. Pei
Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts. — Walter Gropius
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. — Robin Sharma
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. — William S. Burroughs
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building. — Norman Foster
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality. — Carl Rogers
My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine." — Oscar Niemeyer
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. — Harold Wilson
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. — Dale Chihuly
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies — Zaha Hadid
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Colleen C. Barrett
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright
There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach. — Rem Koolhaas
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