Quotes by Architects

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that. Zaha Hadid
You Car Pay Particularly Shed Buildings Tin Expensive Want
I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place. Zaha Hadid
Good People Long Think Out Stay Some Area Pushed Always Get Place Who Lived
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong. Zaha Hadid
Time You Training Will Research Think Guessing See Intuitive Architects Ten Ten Years Wrong Years May Happen Twenty Based
What's similar between Britain and America is the lack of good-quality civic buildings. Zaha Hadid
Civic Similar Between Buildings America Lack Britain
I'm a pushover. I make allowances for people if I like them. Zaha Hadid
People Allowances Like Make Them
Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society. Zaha Hadid
Education Important Important Things Society Hospitals Most Housing The Most Important Things
Men think a woman should not have an opinion. Zaha Hadid
Woman Men Think Opinion Should
I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends. Zaha Hadid
School Decision Made Male Lot Friends
As a woman, you're not accessible to every world. Zaha Hadid
You Woman World Every Accessible
I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it. Zaha Hadid
Life Politics You Arab All Your Life Know Because Am Iraqi Very Quite Sensitive Your Conscious
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them. Zaha Hadid
People Power Kind Up Them Used Playing
I don't think that everybody in the planet should have a child. I've never had the desire I should have a kid. Zaha Hadid
Think Everybody Kid Never Had Child Planet Should Desire
I can't focus when there's too many things around. Whenever I used to go to the office, I used to always say, 'Tidy up.' Zaha Hadid
Focus Too Say Tidy Around Always Go Up Office Whenever Used Many Things
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. Zaha Hadid
Time You Women Architecture Half Respected See Architects Students Female Established
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building. Zaha Hadid
Great Progress Building Nation Sense Unbroken Great Sense Nation-Building Iraq Up Optimism Moment Belief Growing Growing Up
I am equally proud of all of my architectural projects. It's always rewarding to see an ambitious design become reality. Zaha Hadid
Reality Become Design Projects See Architectural Equally Always Proud Am Ambitious Rewarding
I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness. Zaha Hadid
Cities Find Toughness Exciting Like Industrial
I always admired the U.S. as the country of the space shuttle, of technological achievement. Santiago Calatrava
Achievement Space Country Admired Always Space Shuttle Technological Shuttle
Though I love the arts with all my heart - paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music - and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important. Santiago Calatrava
Love Music Heart Theatre Architecture I Am Important Think Though All My Heart I Love Most Am Arts Achievements The Most Important Biggest Really Convinced Sculpture Paintings Among Humans
Bridges represent archetypal problems. They are artifacts that bring you across or around an obstacle. So they have an unbelievable force. Santiago Calatrava
You Problems Unbelievable Archetypal Obstacle Force Around Represent Across Bridges Bring
Beautiful is difficult. I admire very much the courage of the people who have said, 'Let's do something different. Let's try to see if our environment will be more beautiful and our city will be more beautiful.' Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful Courage People Try Will Difficult Our City Admire See Something More Environment Said Very Different Much Who
Imagine for a second that the Golden Gate had not been built. This place in the San Francisco Bay would be one of the many beautiful places along the Pacific Coast - but that's all. Once you put the bridge there, you distinguish it from any other place in the world. Santiago Calatrava
Beautiful You World Other Once Francisco Distinguish Bay Would Would-Be Had Put Along Beautiful Places Built Been Any Any Other Place Golden San Pacific Place San Francisco Places Coast Many Bridge Second Gate Imagine
There is a change in the view about how condominiums are designed. People used to make prototype apartments and reproduce these boxes hundreds and even thousands of times, and then ask people to conform. Santiago Calatrava
Change People Hundreds Thousands About Make Boxes Prototype How Times Reproduce Conform Apartments Ask Then View Used Even Designed
I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty. Santiago Calatrava
Work Service Art You Man Architecture Beauty Approach I See Follow See Idea Artistic Sculptor Use Paint Techniques
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone. Santiago Calatrava
You Perseverance Blame Architecture Politician Must Architect Someone Through Between Come Understand Difference Being Profession
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. Santiago Calatrava
Best Hoping Admire Architects Given Mature Same Themselves Many
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