Architects Quotes
Architects Quote of the day
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.
In speculative buildings which is most of our business there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence the top and the elevator cab.
Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
With an architect as your guide, you canresponsibly stop worrying about what spacessomeone else might want in a house and focus only on those things your house should include.
Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe - when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.
