1028 quotes by architects for you to enjoy

I design for the use of a building and the place and for the people who use it... the reputation for arrogance comes because when work is offered to me, I look whether I can find a genuine interest in quality. Peter Zumthor

Work Me Quality People Arrogance Building Reputation Design Find Look For The People Because Genuine Offered Whether Place Interest Use Who

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas. Peter Zumthor

Mainly Vehicles Ideas Buildings Interested Mean Symbols

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. Peter Zumthor

Architecture World Statement Makes Concrete Exists Where Place

I work anywhere between three and 10 years on a project, depending on the size. My lifetime is finite. Therefore, I have to look carefully at how many projects I want to put into my lifetime. Peter Zumthor

Work Three Carefully Project Projects Finite Lifetime Put Between Look How Years Depending Size Want Anywhere Many Therefore

Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the use of the building together with the client, in a process, so that as we go along we become more intelligent. Peter Zumthor

I need a close contact to the client, whoever it is, and a commitment of the client to go out and do a process together. I want to do the best for him. I need his respect and his patience. I want to work with a sophisticated person who's interested in a good building and not in my name. Peter Zumthor

Work Best Good Patience Respect Together Commitment Building Out Contact Name Sophisticated Him Client Go His Close Person Want Process Interested Whoever Need

My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. Peter Zumthor

First About Buildings Aesthetic Were Reasons Rejected

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available. Peter Zumthor

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. Philip Johnson

Art Architecture Interior Space Design Interiors Organizing Basically

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral. Philip Johnson

Thought Looking Looking Back Beauty Back Earth Embellish Thrill Shapes Generations Like Look Cathedral Greater Leave Get Same Here

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. Philip Johnson

Great Architecture Space Design Contains Shelter Stimulates Persons

All architects want to live beyond their deaths. Philip Johnson

Death Live Architects Beyond Deaths Want

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. Philip Johnson

Good Arrogant Architect Architects Know Were Modest

I'm a chameleon, so changeable. I see myself as a gadfly and a questioner. Philip Johnson

Myself Changeable See Chameleon

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were. Philip Johnson

You Architecture Walls Back Our Press Marvelous Feel Talking How Concrete Go Line Were Surprised Lines Any After Room Straight Straight Line Should Body Mold Your Your Body Why

The future of architecture is culture. Philip Johnson

Future Culture Architecture

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper. Philip Johnson

House Doing Than Much Skyscraper Harder

I wouldn't build a building if it wasn't of interest to me as a potential work of art. Why should I? Philip Johnson

Work Art Me Build Building Potential Interest Should Why

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