Best 147 quotes in «architect quotes» category

You say that you trust no one, but I don't believe you. You trust constantly - even when you don't realize it. At the intersection, you trust that the other drivers will stop when their traffic lights are red; you trust the architects and builders when you walk into a building, the engineers when hopping onto a roller coaster, the cook when you're eating the meal prepared for you. To some extent you trust countless strangers on a daily basis. Just as you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world with a full trust in all people, you would have an extremely tough time surviving in this world without any trust for any people.

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.

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

All clients think that they are architects.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Architects are the new comedians.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . .

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.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Character is the architect of the being.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

Every Man is the Architect of his own Fortunes, but the Neighbours superintend the Construction.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen poetry. I just want to mix all those things.

I'd like to be an architect. That would be cool. I like drawing.

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.

I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

Heaven is so far of the mind that were the mind dissolved - the site of it by architect could not again be proved.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

If I am not mistaken, the word "art" and "artist" did not exist during the Renaissance and before: there were simply architects, sculptors, and painters, practicing a trade.

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work. The press comes up with this stuff and it sticks. I hate the word starchitect. Stuff like that comes from mean-spirited, untalented journalists. It's demeaning.

If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.

I have high aspirations. I want to be an architect.