Architect Quotes
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a philosopher for temperance.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well.
My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
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.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of creativity to each building.
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.
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.
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony
I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets.
I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And...and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted.
The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.
The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be an architect.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.
I'd have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I'd just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.
