Architect Quotations

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

Of all the Jedis I saw in the film, Yoda's the only one I like.

I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence.

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.

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest. Because I also want to be an architect when I grow up, if I can, and I know that being an architect takes a lot of math in it.

The whole purpose of those attacks was to drive those contractors out. Lots of them had to leave. They were terrified.

And you finally get to a consensus, where you get a sense of what really ought to be done, and then they give it to me and then I draw it. I mean draw it in the sense, the philosophical sense.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.

And I think one of the tasks that I always feel is how to get that vision out of them. Not exactly what they want, but what they want to accomplish for themselves or their community or their family.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

Because over and over again, the times that I've done really good things is because I've had a wonderful client of some kind, and a lot of it depended on me to induce them to be creative.

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Then I sit down, work at it, because now I have a convincing feeling about what that place wants to be, you see? And it's not just me. Me and my talent comes in taking that consensus and then making something wonderful out of it - a work of art.

Because one of the benefits of getting older, I guess-there are very few benefits, really - most of them are a pain in the butt. People depend on me more; they believe in me more, they think I'm good.

When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.

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

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.

I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.

It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.

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

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level.

I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.

Because the quality of living with nature and allowing it to manifest itself is different than the quality of living in a city, especially a dense city.

I almost rented a house by an architect named Schindler, but I couldn't afford it. It was a jewel

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

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

I suppose and I hope that the young guys who are out there losing their lives at least feel the same way I did. I shouldn't think about this very much because I'm almost weeping when I think about it.

It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

As a longtime fashion enthusiast and the architect of the YMCMB lifestyle, it makes perfect sense to partner with the esteemed Bravado and move into fashion and launch my apparel brands.

My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He's a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, 'I wake up like this. I'm Pollyanna Sunshine, and I'm not for everyone'.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in '97.

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?

The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams.

I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.

The view outside was much more important than the exhibits.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

Who is the architect? I am the architect.

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

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But, there's always a danger of looking back as our fathers did and saying, 'Things were better then.'

Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of the voting population that was not anticommunist in 1961 was miniscule.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

I would have loved to have been an architect - which, actually, would have been a disaster.

Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will not themselves be realized.

Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.

Some museum boards think that choosing an architect can be reduced to a science, but it comes down to a matter of taste, pure and simple. A shortlist of prospective designers speaks volumes about the likely outcome. If the candidates' styles are too divergent, the search committee doesn't know what it wants.

One of legendary architect Pete Dye's most celebrated courses, Teeth of the Dog is named for a local term describing the island's jagged-edged coral reefs. The Caribbean-bordering par 3s are the Dog's main draw and down on the fifth and the seventh holes, you're so close to the water that you can feel the spray.

My dad was an architect and I started, before I was even at school, drawing and having a fascination with drawing based on my dad bringing home rolls of plans,

Poetry is a double-edged sword. You learn to use language at its most intense - but this is far too intense for prose fiction. I've been teaching myself to progressively strip the 'poetry' away - the bulk of The Architect is told in very simple prose.

Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

Situated a mile high in the Canadian Rockies, Banff Springs is one of the most spectacular golf course settings in the world. Legendary architect Stanley Thompson sculpted the course on a broad scale to maximize the impact of the vistas. A hole called the 'Devil's Cauldron' is framed by Mount Rundle and considered one of the game's most compelling par-3s.

So I test all the buildings that I do by asking myself whether this building was possible, could have been built 50 years ago or a hundred years ago.

Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.

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.

For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.

I have lost a longtime friend, as did the entire racing community. He had a brilliant racing mind and was the architect of one of the most unique racing programs in the country.

He is the single most successful architect of a financial services colossus of our time.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

I don't care what people call me,labels have the negative value of making smaller boundaries for people.

I have a requirement for myself in making designations of elements. I need to have full language and I do not want the language to be only space.

Brands must become architects of community.

What will probably happen is they will knuckle down and vote for reform. Things are getting better in Japan and the architect of that appears to be moving toward retaining power.

He wanted to be a great architect and design great public buildings. Instead, he was doing a lot of private commissions. He just did these 'white elephants,' as Henry James called them,

He was the chief architect of the Fugitive Slave Act -- though he abhorred slavery. Runaway slaves could be returned to their masters no matter where they were, no matter how long they had been living free. It was violently detested. There were riots.

He is an unusually detail-oriented software engineer. He knows how to architect small pieces of software code.

He was a true friend of Bangladesh cricket. To be honest he was the architect behind the change of domestic structure. It was bad luck that we couldn't get him for a long time.

He has been a key element in numerous successful programs and he has been the architect of some of college football's best defenses during the past 25 years.

He is not just any old Tory MP - he is the architect of the Tory tax and spending plans over the last two years

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

I think a lot of people have the Frank Lloyd Wright model in their brains. The architect comes in with this act of creation and lays it down, and that's it. But that's not me.

Nasser's been the primary architect of a failed transformation of Ford from its core automotive heritage to some expansive consumer-centric organization, which we think employees, dealers, suppliers and investors have found to varying degrees to be somewhat incomprehensible.

John has distinguished himself with his sound judgment and great leadership skills. He will be a key architect in helping us continue as innovators as we chart our course to higher profitability. ... He always takes a big picture view to everything he does while bringing a great deal of wisdom, knowledge and patience to all matters he deals with; qualities that make him the perfect choice to work side by side with me in running the business and operational areas of the network.

I studied graphic design originally. I used to like drawing, and I was quite into technical drawing. I was always interested in the visual medium, but I thought I was going to be an architect or something like that, but it's quite a lonely job.

I think Toronto is an ideal situation. There's good ownership. There's talent. There's cap room. He has the chance to be the architect of something special.

THOSE who deny God, the Supreme Will or the First Cause, can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand; nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all, how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy, manipulating both, the minutest atom and cell and the vastest, most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence, except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It's almost like being an architect: You can't be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll Le Corbusier go write four books about it.

The architect can only achieve this if he establishes a relationship with those buildings which have hitherto created this sentiment in man.

The architect was good at little details to make the library not look like a warehouse.

We have been working on the details for the last several months for the first phase of a walkway that will more or less parallel Town Branch, ... We have an architect firm working on the design of the walkways now.

Under capitalism everybody is the architect of his own fortune.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.