Architect Quotes

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

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Innovator

• 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.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Fun
  • Designer
  • Composer

• 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.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • Hotel
  • Burger
  • Beijing

• I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and historian (which mostly miss the living spirit behind the forms).

  

  Clarence John Laughlin
  • Spirit
  • Missing
  • Building

• There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but that which directly leads to action. It is for the latter to see beyond. They are the free artists who create the future and its history, the conscious architects of the world.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Environment
  • Changes
  • Human Behavior

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

  

  Norman Foster
  • Impossible
  • Architect
  • Optimist

• I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

  

  Sandra Bullock
  • Home
  • Building
  • Buying

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

  

  Renzo Piano
  • Should
  • Architect
  • Museums

• Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

  

  Adolf Loos
  • Men
  • Architecture
  • Sentiments

• I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of the cars, to the structures of the city, to the patterns of textiles - to find the reasons behind the forms. That is very rewarding. If you extend a profession like that to the entire history, it allows you to travel through time.

  

  Rafael Moneo
  • Regrets
  • Architect
  • Cars

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

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Architect
  • Brazilian

• 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.

  

  Bruce Sterling
  • Disaster
  • Thrive
  • Host

• Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Space
  • Design
  • Architecture

• Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

  

  Plutarch
  • Terror
  • Architect
  • Commotion

• A good architect works slowly.

  

  Alvaro Siza Vieira
  • Works
  • Architect
  • Slowly

• I am the way into the city of woe. I am the way to a forsaken people. I am the way into eternal sorrow. Sacred justice moved my architect. I was raised here by divine omnipotence, Primordial love and ultimate intellect. Only those elements time cannot wear Were made before me, and beyond time I stand. Abandon all hope ye who enter here.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • People
  • Way
  • Justice

• I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.

  

  Little Richard
  • Rock
  • Fan
  • Rock N Roll

• I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of public space, a metamorphic process, without relying on a hypothetical time in the future when everything will be perfect. The mistake of planners and architects is to believe that fifty years from now Alexanderplatz will be perfected. -p.197

  

  Daniel Libeskind
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Future

• Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Together
  • Architecture
  • Two

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

  

  Renzo Piano
  • House
  • Satisfied
  • Architect

• It is the task of the architect to give life a gentler structure.

  

  Alvar Aalto
  • Life
  • Structure
  • Architect

• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Creature
  • Architect
  • Circumstance

• The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and fortunes, it is the dream, past and present, acknowledged or unacknowledged, of almost every architect.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Dream
  • Building
  • Acknowledged

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