Quotes on Architect

If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

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

A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.

I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the game. To find the proper way to play any hole, I've always begun by asking myself what the architect has tried to do with it.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature - this very unique to Japan.

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not the conclusion, but is diligent to mark how it is inferred; they read for other purposes than the attainment of practical knowledge; and are no more likely to grow wise by an examination of a treatise of moral prudence, than an architect to inflame his devotion by considering attentively the proportions of a temple.

I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

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

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change.

No stream rises higher than its source

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.