1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. Elizabeth Diller

Grateful Women Architecture Has-Been Am Been Forever Movement

My mother and father had been through the Holocaust. The family was wiped out. I grew up never knowing aunts, uncles, or grandparents. Elizabeth Diller

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As a kid, I imagined being an artist. Elizabeth Diller

Kid Artist Being Imagined

I can't imagine having a spouse who is not an architect. It's hard to put myself in the shoes of other couples where each partner brings totally different things from their day to the table. Elizabeth Diller

In my thesis, I made an intellectual exercise out of creating a pair of buildings that were a repeat but slightly different - dissonant things make me uncomfortable. Elizabeth Diller

Me Made Slightly Out Uncomfortable Make Exercise Buildings Were Repeat Intellectual Different Creating Pair Thesis Things

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests. Elizabeth Diller

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Theatre is real-time - you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don't ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities. Elizabeth Diller

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Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good. Elizabeth Diller

Good Someone New Yorker Goes Being Want New Yorker Patron

I believe in planning logics where you have neighbourhoods, and you don't just do one building at a time. Elizabeth Diller

Time You Building Believe Just Where Planning

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration. Elizabeth Diller

Project Inspiration Joyful Always Each

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. Elizabeth Diller

Architecture Studying Intellectually Bankrupt

I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense. Elizabeth Diller

Thought Sense Architect Never Going Conventional

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. Emilio Ambasz

Good Architecture School Princeton Undergraduate Sublime University

My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers, and I designed a house for them. I didn't know anything about Le Corbusier or anything like that, but it ended up being a very cubistic kind of house. I always wanted to be an architect. Emilio Ambasz

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Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. Frank Gehry

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. Frank Gehry

Work Me You Together Architecture Improvise Jazz Think Other Way City Something Like Make Understand Off Trying Liquid Happen Might Work Together Each Play

A lot of people don't get it, but I design from the inside out so that the finished product looks inevitable somehow. I think it's important to create spaces that people like to be in, that are humanistic. Frank Gehry

People Finished Important Inevitable Design Think Out Inside Inside-Out Somehow Finished Product Like Looks Lot Get Spaces Create Product Humanistic

You've got to bumble forward into the unknown. Frank Gehry

You Unknown Got Bumble Forward

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture. Frank Gehry

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I approach each project with a new insecurity, almost like the first project I ever did, and I get the sweats, I go in and start working, I'm not sure where I'm going. Frank Gehry

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There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling. Frank Gehry

Me Feeling Everyone Backlash Buildings Done Movement Against Who

Green issues have been used as a marketing tool. Sometimes these green claims are completely meaningless. Frank Gehry

Sometimes Tool Marketing Claims Issues Been Green Meaningless Used

My father was an urchin that lived in Hell's Kitchen. He was part of a family of nine. I mean, there were times that were better and worse, but mostly, by the time we got to L.A., they'd lost whatever they had. And it was a sad time. And both he and I became truck drivers for different companies. Frank Gehry

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