Quotes about Architects

Architects are the new comedians. Votes: 3

Architects cannot teach nature anything. Votes: 3

Architects need to restore and protect. Votes: 3

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality. Votes: 3

Architects design houses. I live in a home. Votes: 3

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy Votes: 3

Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers. Votes: 3

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Votes: 3

Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built. Votes: 3

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. Votes: 3

Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. Votes: 3

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. Votes: 3

I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together. Votes: 3

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. Votes: 3

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. Votes: 3

Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. Votes: 3

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. Votes: 3

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money. Votes: 3

Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty host of Postmodern skyscrapers. Votes: 3

Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so convinced that they matter. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Architects see the world a certain way, and cooks see and smell the world a certain way. [Dancing ] is always been my lens, what I use to see. Votes: 3

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it. Votes: 3

There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy and materials, and making things durable. Votes: 3

Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both got to say yes to someone if we want to stay in business. Votes: 3

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. Votes: 3

Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining. Votes: 3

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. Votes: 3

Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and in its separate parts. Only then will their work be imbued with the architectonic spirit . . . Votes: 3

Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes. Votes: 3

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?' Votes: 3

In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences. Votes: 3

It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very famous; they've got huge projects. What goes on in and around them has been relegated to a very minor role. Votes: 3

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens Votes: 3

Architects are mostly self-centered and their buildings express their ego. [They are] not social buildings to make it more comfortable for people - to make life better for people. The cities have to be designed so people can get together and talk with one another. Votes: 3

Art itself cannot be taught, but craftsmanship can. Architects, painters, sculptors are all craftsmen in the original sense of the word. Thus it is a fundamental requirement of all artistic creativity that every student undergo a thorough training in the workshops of all branches of the crafts. Votes: 3

Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to the aesthetics of their work, when they aim at a particular effect on the mind or on the senses, the rules dissolve into nothing but vague ideas. Votes: 3

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. Votes: 1

I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. Votes: 1

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. Votes: 1

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. Votes: 1

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. Votes: 1

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. Votes: 1

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. Votes: 1

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building. Votes: 1

Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success. Votes: 1

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. Votes: 1

Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships with them. They must become architects of community, consistently demonstrating the values that their customer community expects in exchange for their loyalty and purchases. Votes: 1

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Votes: 1

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. Votes: 1

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project. Votes: 1

Women are the architects of society Votes: 0

Musicians are the architects of heaven. Votes: 0

Brands must become architects of community. Votes: 0

All clients think that they are architects. Votes: 0

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. Votes: 0

But then architects don't build their own houses. Votes: 0

As architects we have a responsibility to society Votes: 0

We are the architects of our own happiness Votes: 0

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny. Votes: 0

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. Votes: 0

Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects. Votes: 0

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society. Votes: 0

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects. Votes: 0

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. Votes: 0

When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear. Votes: 0

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. Votes: 0

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. Votes: 0

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change Votes: 0

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Votes: 0

The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. Votes: 0

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present. Votes: 0

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be Votes: 0

It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. Votes: 0

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. Votes: 0

We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. Votes: 0

Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. Votes: 0

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. Votes: 0

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. Votes: 0

I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city. Votes: 0

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. Votes: 0

I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. Votes: 0

Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers. Votes: 0

In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. Votes: 0

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist. Votes: 0

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. Votes: 0

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work... Votes: 0

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. Votes: 0

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people. Votes: 0

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. Votes: 0

Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything. Votes: 0

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves. Votes: 0

The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people. Votes: 0

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. Votes: 0

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. Votes: 0

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. Votes: 0

Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. Votes: 0

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change. Votes: 0

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes. Votes: 0

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses. Votes: 0

Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness. Votes: 0

When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. Votes: 0

As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. Votes: 0

Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. Votes: 0

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events." Votes: 0

You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future. Votes: 0

Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either. Votes: 0

Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future. Votes: 0

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. Votes: 0

The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. Votes: 0

All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Votes: 0

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers. Votes: 0

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed. Votes: 0

The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone. Votes: 0

Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that. Votes: 0

Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects. Votes: 0

Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you cant separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of a building. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the fiasco's architects acknowledge that fact. Votes: 0

Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coco Chanel to Christian Dior, Cecil Beaton, musicians, architects... the list is endless. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My special situation was that I was the son and grandson of architects. And so I saw building. We were building the city, and that was exciting. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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 Votes: 0

In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran. Votes: 0

I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature. Votes: 0

Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster. Votes: 0

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies Votes: 0

We are the true architects of our lives. Only we as individuals and individuals alone, carry within us, the inner ability to make any changes to it's blue prints. Votes: 0

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space. Votes: 0

Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of states been preserved by the cunning of architects. Votes: 0

One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around us as well as the making of worlds. Votes: 0

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from. Votes: 0

In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between how architects draw, think, engage bylaws and constraints. Votes: 0

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives. Votes: 0

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? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Through training, practice, and a deep sense of optimism, architects see opportunities where others only see a void. This has been the driving principle behind Architecture for Humanity since our founding. Votes: 0

Mr. Koons's work has always inspired architects, which I think is very interesting. I think he is an artist who has reinvented himself so many times and reinvented so many different series. Votes: 0

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, Votes: 0

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. Votes: 0

If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. Votes: 0

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. Votes: 0

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years. Votes: 0

I am fighting this. I want to get better, I want to work again. I do believe we are architects of our destinies, but with me somewhere along the line something came loose. Votes: 0

Clearly, private developers can have different aims, and architects can only play a certain role. You can have some pretty big battles on public commissions, too. The key is to have a good client. Votes: 0

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence. Votes: 0

I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an opportunity to go anywhere in the world to produce meaningless buildings. Votes: 0

There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They were twins. They both became architects. They were both six years older. Votes: 0

You can say, like, planet Earth has an existing geology, and what we do as human beings and as architects is that we try to sort of alter and modify and expand the geology. Votes: 0

Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of successful design collaboration between a talented architect and an enlightened, motivated client. Votes: 0

Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism. Votes: 0

Im particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our basic obligations to the public, and our opportunities to do so are many. Votes: 0

Avant-garde architects have never been able to depend on the support of the establishment, since the customary patrons of this most conservative and slowly moving art form have historically been resistant to innovation and experiment. Votes: 0