Architects Quotes

• It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Working
  • Architects

• Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Design
  • Special
  • Century

• Ten years after Dayton, that these two primary architects of these appalling crimes should still be free is a failure on all sides.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Free
  • Failure
  • Crimes

• 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.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • American
  • Declaration of Independence
  • Architects

• There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

  

  Edwin Lutyens
  • Great
  • Architecture
  • Patrons

• Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

  

  Curtis W. Fentress
  • Building
  • Notion
  • Should Be

• Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the prow of the boat to help sailors cross the ocean; and architects, grappling with the intangibles of design, select a guru whose work gives them personal help in areas where there are few rules to follow. The guru, as architectural father-figure, is subject to intense hate and love; either way, the relationship is personal, and necessarily one-to-one.

  

  Denise Scott Brown
  • Relationship
  • Follow
  • Instruments

• Architects don’t invent anything; they transform reality.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Reality
  • Transform
  • Architects

• ...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller

  

  Cedric Price
  • Design
  • Anticipatory
  • Buckminster Fuller

• 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.

  

  Elliot W. Eisner
  • Education
  • Individuals
  • Reinvent

• A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.

  

  Cedric Price
  • Quality
  • Value
  • Improvement

• 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.

  

  Emily Lloyd
  • Believe
  • Fighting
  • Destinies

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

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Ready
  • Materials
  • Architects

• 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.

  

  Steven Holl
  • Houses
  • Portfolio
  • Architects

• We are the architects of our own happiness.

  

  Gerald Causse
  • Happiness
  • Architects

• For me, architects and film directors operate similarly. They are practical. As an architect, you know what you want in the conception of a space - but you still need a lot of people to help you out. You need an engineer, interior architects. But a film is the same - you have all these elements. But in terms of concept, it's always about time. When you approach a building, you need time to go from point A to B. Buildings are designed as a journey and films are the same, you have an opening that you come through, an angle you follow, maybe a disruption in space.

  

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Directors
  • Opening
  • Conception

• Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Something
  • Without
  • Architects

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

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Members
  • Conference
  • Architects

• 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.

  

  Rem Koolhaas
  • Another
  • Demands
  • Respond

• 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.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • People
  • Quality
  • Because

• 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.

  

  Richard Rogers
  • Different
  • Private
  • Developers