Architect Quotes

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.

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.

When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the mainstream media culture, black comedy, satire, absurdism is the only response.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don't design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don't really care, as long as we're selling the one the customer wants.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a way of looking at the world that is really important.

The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It's a limit between the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.

Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music.

In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect.

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

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.

When we build, let us think that we build forever.

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

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.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load which is laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together. So if therapists wish to foster their patients' mental health, they should not be afraid to increase that load through a reorientation toward the meaning of one's life.

As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality of the building. So one could say, or at least it is the common belief that architecture has to be built; I always denied that, because ultimately it is based on an idea. I don't ever need a building to verify my idea. Of course, what with a building is more its vanity and actual physical experience. But I anticipate; I wouldn't even build it if I could not anticipate how it would be.

The best architects feel it to be their duty to make the path to the hole as free as possible from annoying difficulties for the less skillful golfers, while at the same time presenting to the scratch players a route calling for the best shots at their command.

Knowing what you need doesn't always mean you know how to get it, though. I'd spent a long time hiding in my cave. No matter how much I might want to come out into the light, I knew it would hurt my eyes. I was a fool. A fool, but nevertheless too smart not to know I was the architect of my own demise, that it was time to put my past behind me. It was time to stop allowing the white elephants to stand unspoken of in my living room.

If theory is the role of the architect, then such beautiful proofs are the role of the craftsman. Of course, as with the great renaissance artists, such roles are not mutually exclusive. A great cathedral has both structural impressiveness and delicate detail. A great mathematical theory should similarly be beautiful on both large and small scales.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.