Architect Quotes
Democracy, obviously, is something we don't want to give up, but it does create chaos. It means the guy next door can do what he wants, and it creates a collision of thinking. In cities, that means people build whatever they want.
Frank Gehry
Canadian-American architect
I think my desire to imagine a future for this site came out of trying to come to terms with the emotions that day aroused.
Michael Arad
Israeli-American architect
People in Shanghai make a lot more money than the farmers in the rice paddies. The rice-paddy farmers are not buying Louis Vuitton bags, but the upwardly mobile ones in Shanghai, who are all working in Wall Street-type firms, are infinitely better-dressed than people in the West. Their women take this fashion thing seriously.
Peter Marino
American architect
Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next.
Maya Lin
American designer
I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say 'involved,' I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they're built and say, 'Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?'
Peter Marino
American architect
Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away.
Charles Jencks
American landscape architect
Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.
Mario Botta
Swiss architect
If you are not able to transmit what you're trying to achieve to your collaborators, you will only have minions - or morons.
Bjarke Ingels
Danish architect
A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
I. M. Pei
Chinese-American architect
I have no requirements for a style of architecture.
Michael Graves
American architect
I don't believe in the ownership of work.
Richard Rogers
Former Member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.
Charles Jencks
American landscape architect
There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Norton Juster
American architect
The Achilles Heel of the Americas was the lack of cultural confidence typical of new settlers.
Arthur Erickson
Canadian architect
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.
Frank Gehry
Canadian-American architect
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect
We live in a complicated, oppressive world with enormous cities and vast populations, and I try to contribute by making it more light and open and calm.
Moshe Safdie
Architect
For me, though, the fun is over when I get the job.
Helmut Jahn
German-American architect
If you think about it, the printing press allowed everyone to print books - it democratised the printing of information. For the first time, we could all print.
Neri Oxman
American-Israeli designer
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
American architect
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