Top 368 Architects Quotes & Sayings

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers.

Women are the real architects of society.

For me, architects and film directors operate similarly. They are practical. As an architect, you know what you want in the conception of a space - but you still need a lot of people to help you out. You need an engineer, interior architects. But a film is the same - you have all these elements. But in terms of concept, it's always about time. When you approach a building, you need time to go from point A to B. Buildings are designed as a journey and films are the same, you have an opening that you come through, an angle you follow, maybe a disruption in space.

Brands must become architects of community.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and critics, not for the tenants.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

I know for me as an artist, I think I do myself and my listeners a disservice, if I don't listen to some of the best music out there. If I was an architect or a carpenter, I'm going to want to study the best architects and carpenters and I'm going to appreciate their work, because they're going to inspire me to do well. And I just look at them as great architects and I just appreciate the gift that God gave them.

I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.

It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery.

States are the architects of UDAY, not the central government.

Great architects like Taut, Mendelsohn, and Gropius built some astonishing buildings which were to change the way architects around the world thought. Brecht and Weill forever changed musical theatre; Kaethe Kollwitz and others changed German perceptions of the purposes of art.

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

Women are the architects of society

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.

Architects are the new comedians.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.

Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old Leftie, global capitalism does have its good side. It's broken down barriers - the Berlin Wall, the Soviet Union - it's raised a lot of people up economically, and for architects, it has meant that we can work around the world.

There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up.

I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong political and commercial climate, many architects are trying very hard to solve everyday issues, to respond to the authorities.

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

Architects design houses. I live in a home.

We need architects to be visionaries.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

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

We are the architects of our own happiness

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

But then architects don't build their own houses.

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

Architects like to work in a problematic environment.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

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?'

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.

Musicians are the architects of heaven.

Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity.

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.

There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.

All clients think that they are architects.

In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound.

Architects need to restore and protect.

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.