Top 368 Architects Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when they're designing buildings.
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.
In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.
My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess I've started a dynasty.
We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes.
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around the drawing aspect and construction my whole life.
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning
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.
Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
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.
You could say that I had become possessed, in the classical sense, by the art of the great architects of the past. And that led me to engineering.
It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes.
I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it.
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same.
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.
Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.
Architects have to become more aware of exactly what is involved in designing barrier-free buildings and homes.
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate ourselves from.
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration - not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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.
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects.
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
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.
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
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.
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.
Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly.
My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers.
I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of a building.
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
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