Architect Quotes

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.

You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

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

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

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.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect

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.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

I am the innovator. I am the originator. I am the emancipator. I am the architect of rock 'n' roll!

A museum is a place where one should lose one's head.

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.

For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with feelings of kindly reverence the unknown domains of the other's higher knowledge.

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

Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.

I’m a passionate architect... I do not work for money

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

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

I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings.

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

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality.

As architects we have a responsibility to society

No stream rises higher than its source

There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything, Tony Iommi.

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.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

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

I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work.

The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.

It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.

A composer is not only an architect but also an inventor, and he should not build houses in which he cannot live.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

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

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Struggle is the architect of the soul.

Tell me what chair you've designed and I'll tell you what sort of architect you are.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.