Top 100 Quotes About Architects
#1. Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects ... the list is endless.
Dries Van Noten
#2. There is no God and we are his inventors. Humanity designed him like some sinister masochistic architects. The infinite blueprint for our intellectual enslavement.
C.J. Anderson
#3. When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.
Ove Arup
#4. Like architects, researchers build models to represent the real world.
Dahlia K. Remler
#5. Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
Barbra Streisand
#6. One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds.
Jimenez Lai
#8. The ultimate aim of education is to enable individuals to become the architects of their own education and through that process to continually reinvent themselves.
Elliot W. Eisner
#9. One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.
Andre Leon Talley
#10. I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
Frank Gehry
#11. Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.
Samuel
#12. Doctors are crucial choice architects, and with an understanding of how Humans think, they could do far more to improve people's health and thus to lengthen their lives.
Richard H. Thaler
#13. For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught - nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!
Herman Melville
#14. When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.
Walt Whitman
#15. Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter.
Cedric Price
#17. As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we're making is something that intrigues me very much.
Michael Arad
#18. The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.
Brian Webb
#19. Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.
John Eldredge
#20. In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work ...
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#21. When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Colleen Barrett
#22. The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
#23. Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.
Arlie Russell Hochschild
#24. I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission ... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
Kenzo Tange
#25. Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding.
Cameron Sinclair
#26. Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
Renzo Piano
#27. The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway.
Rachel Maddow
#28. The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.
Michael Graves
#29. Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known - that is - that everything is architecture. Charles Eames
John Harwood
#30. Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#31. Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.
Sam Snead
#32. Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.
Stephen M. Barr
#33. I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
Zaha Hadid
#34. I think that all architects, structural engineers, educators, and service personnel should have to spend a day in a wheelchair as part of training.
Juli K. Dixon
#35. Most architects say: I want to use this type of glass, even if it's too reflective or doesn't let enough light in. However, the use of a certain type of glass might change the comfort level.
Helmut Jahn
#36. At each point in our lives, we are at a crossroads. We are the fruit of our past and we are the architects of our future ... If you want to know your past, look at your present circumstances. If you want to know your future, look at what is in your mind.
Matthieu Ricard
#38. Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.
Kim Gandy
#39. Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few years hence will say, 'Oh, that building there is being knocked down, who did that one?'
Jonathan Meades
#40. You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology.
Bjarke Ingels
#41. I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is not to fight it. Just to be very quiet, let them get on with it and let them really mess it up.
Barbara Hulanicki
#42. Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.
Richard Neutra
#43. Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially doors through garages, architects keep designing houses with ceremonial front doors that are nowhere near any car or driveway.
Akiko Busch
#44. There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to architects, but to the people who use it.
David Chipperfield
#45. Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
#46. Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business.
Bill Rancic
#47. The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Benjamin Haydon
#48. 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
#49. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#51. Women's status in society has become the standard by which humanity's progress toward civility and peace can be measured."-Architects of Peace: Visions of Hope in Words and Images
Mahnaz Afkhami
#52. I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings.
Moshe Safdie
#53. Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
David Chipperfield
#54. Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be
Curtis W. Fentress
#55. Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another.
Jacque Fresco
#57. In these modes, energy is at best regarded by architects as a set of necessary quantifications, bureaucratic mandates, and checklists rather than as a fundamental agent in novel formations of architecture.
William W. Braham
#58. All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#59. I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years.
Peter Mandelson
#60. A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact.
George Will
#61. We create our own government. We are responsible for its beauty and for its ugliness. We are responsible for its glories and for its failures and, most important, we are responsible for amending those failures no matter who are their most immediate architects.
Charlie Pierce
#62. Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.
Le Corbusier
#63. So it's not an architectural masterpiece. When Da5id and Hiro and the other hackers wrote The Black Sun, they didn't have enough money to hire architects or designers, so they just went in for simple geometric shapes. The avatars milling around the entrance don't seem to care.
Neal Stephenson
#64. [There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
Michael Hansmeyer
#65. I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business.
Anthony Holden
#66. The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#67. we end up stronger architects in the end. Like Spartan warriors.
R.S. Grey
#68. 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
#69. Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
Zaha Hadid
#70. We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints.
Robert M. Hensel
#71. One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#72. Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.
Joshua Prince-Ramus
#73. Most consumers are simultaneously neophilic, curious to discover new things, and deeply neophobic, afraid of anything that is too new. The best hit makers are gifted at creating moments of meaning by marrying new and old, anxiety and understanding. They are architects of familiar surprises.
Derek Thompson
#74. our architects need to shift their thinking away from creating the perfect end product, and instead focus on helping create a framework in which the right systems can emerge, and continue to grow as we learn more.
Sam Newman
#75. I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
Parker Stevenson
#76. The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Ricky Skaggs
#77. I'm going to be one of the top four that's ever played this game, for sure. And if they don't want me to have one of those top four spots, they'd better find another spot on that mountain. Somebody's gotta get bumped, but that's not for me to decide. That's for the architects.
LeBron James
#78. When god creat the world,first he must think abour architects
Ashok Sharma
#79. Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
Bill Watterson
#80. In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
Zaha Hadid
#82. Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost, It may have to wait long, but it will certainly come in use, When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.
Walt Whitman
#83. During the Second World War, nobody built any concert halls or theaters. After the war, Lincoln Center was a very brave project because all those architects had never built a theater before. We've learned a lot since then about the nature of materials and the isolation that's required.
Hugh Hardy
#84. Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
Quinlan Terry
#85. I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
David Chipperfield
#86. There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens
#87. Architects often have a mindset where you solve a problem, so you have a set of needs that you have to address. Often I feel that my projects have to have concrete applications.
Pedro Reyes
#88. Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience.
David Chipperfield
#89. The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
William H. Whyte
#90. It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
Olafur Eliasson
#91. As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the world is composed of theatres, or whatever. For me, the world is simply composed of stories; when I look, that's what I see.
Neil Gaiman
#92. As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.
Erik Larson
#93. Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
Frei Otto
#94. One of my bosses happened to be one of the early architects of some of the ways Internet providers work. He taught me how the cables connect, how the telecom providers work ... I learned how to make my own Ethernet cables, all the way up to running a small business.
David Ulevitch
#95. In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
Helmut Jahn
#96. There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable.
Robin Day
#97. Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent.
Peter Zumthor
#98. Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
Alain De Botton
#99. This wasn't just a band of frustrated Egyptian architects in Hamburg. It was much bigger than that,. and had nothing to do with frustration. It was about belief.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#100. When we compare ourselves to engineers or architects, we are in danger of doing everyone a disservice.
Sam Newman
