78 Architects Quotes for You to Enjoy

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. R. Buckminster Fuller

Future Architects Victims

Women are the real architects of society. Cher

Women Society Architects Real Women Are

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. Andre Leon Talley

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Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease. R. Buckminster Fuller

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All clients think that they are architects. Annabelle Selldorf

Think Architects Clients

I went to a school with the kids of judges and elected officials and architects, civil leaders, and influencers. And I felt very much a minority in every way. But it did expose me to incredible things. Ayanna Pressley

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. Barbra Streisand

Love Design Furniture Architects American Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century Special

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. Benjamin Haydon

Architects Only Artists Legitimate England

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success. Bernard Arnault

Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews, architects and sales teams. I am learning a lot and working with some of the best in the business. Bill Rancic

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It is unevolved to want to celebrate the architects and defenders of slavery. Bryan Stevenson

Celebrate Architects Want Slavery Defenders

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. Bryant H. McGill

Architecture Master Architects Builders Often Disillusionment Grandeur

We try to respond as closely as we can to the nature of each city, to the traditions, to their expectations. I don't believe that architects should be imposing their style or their plans on every city in the world. Cesar Pelli

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I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they do and make a strong case for why it's valuable and why it changes the game. I think waiting for people to come around to it just won't do. Daniel H. Pink

Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all speaking our parts at the same time in our own private languages without an audience. David Chipperfield

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If you take guys like Exequiel Bustillo, the architect who designed the early park infrastructure in Argentina, or the great American architects, these guys had a vision that thrust the national park idea into the public eye. Douglas Tompkins

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L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part of the culture - there's too much else going on in New York. They're not going to let one industry monopolize your attention, you know? You're likely to have best friends who are architects or newspaper reporters. Dylan Walsh

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There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. Edwin Lutyens

Great Architecture Will Architects Never Without

Most architects think in drawings, or did think in drawings; today, they think on the computer monitor. I always tried to think three dimensionally. The interior eye of the brain should be not flat but three dimensional so that everything is an object in space. We are not living in a two-dimensional world. Frei Otto

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Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much. Frei Otto

The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought. George Packer

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