Quotes on Architect

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music, have some knowledge of medicine, know the opinions of the jurists, and be acquainted with astronomy and the theory of the heavens

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.

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe.

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

If an architect makes a mistake, he grows ivy to cover it. If a doctor makes a mistake, he covers it with soil. If a cook makes a mistake, he covers it with some sauce and says it is a new recipe.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

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.'