Top 125 Architect Quotes

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything – people want to be appreciated for what they have done.

As a longtime fashion enthusiast and the architect of the YMCMB lifestyle, it makes perfect sense to partner with the esteemed Bravado and move into fashion and launch my apparel brands.

I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration‘s foreign policy.

My dad was an architect, and he wasn’t a rich guy, but in our little world in Philadelphia, he was famous. He loved to see his picture in the paper. I wanted to be more famous than him.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.

Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create what we create. It’s almost like being an architect: You can’t be an architect and build whatever buildings you want to.

I don’t build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

My dad was not happy about my not becoming an architect like him.

A film reflects who you are as a building reflects the soul of its architect. I think what you feel and what you think and what you are is what the film is. It’s not for me to talk about.

I guess I can’t be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I’ve always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because for him being a builder is much more than being just an architect. He was very angry, and I never thought I could do something else.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It’s like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music – making a space for art is the same thing.

I had said bye-bye to acting, in a way, but once an actor, always an actor. Life has got other plans for me. Like, I did not want to be an actor – I wanted to be an architect or astronaut – and ‘Daddy‘ happened, and the rest is history.

Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They’ve needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.

Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that toolbox, and we now have the ability to use it.

I’m a frustrated would-be architect who stumbled into the would-be business of making movies.

As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site visits quite often, from age 7 or 8. I have memories of crawling through the rafters of the old building, trying to find where the leak in the roof was.

As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability.

Being in construction my whole life – I was trained as an architect – I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don’t want to be shown up by a woman.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

I actually feel like a very traditional architect.

I would have loved to have been an architect – which, actually, would have been a disaster.

The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum.

My main profession is architect.

My parents were both writers – they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near Watford – so I wanted to do something different. I wanted to be a bluegrass singer, an architect, a landscape gardener, or to do something with animals.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don’t think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.

A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect.

When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.

A journalist and an information architect face exactly the same problem – how to give shape to the pile of information in front of you in a way that will make it easy and natural for people to comprehend. I can’t imagine any better preparation for the work I do now.

I’d have no trouble being the barbecue kingpin of America. I’d just add it to all the other things I am: jazz musician, carpenter, architect, engineer and revolutionary.

The interesting thing is when we design and architect a server, we don’t design it for Windows or Linux, we design it for both. We don’t really care, as long as we’re selling the one the customer wants.

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that, but I hadn’t spent much energy drawing buildings. So I thought, maybe I could, and then I became an architect.

As a kid I wanted to be a vet; I wanted to be an architect. I was and still am such a little geek.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place – that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it resonates with the culture of a place. So my buildings in India or in Kansas City or in Arkansas or in Singapore, they come out different because the places are so different.

Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would’ve wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it’s different.

An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

Rather than making minor repairs to a few small leaks in the roof, the Architect of the Capitol is proposing to tear down the entire roof and replace it with something called a new vegetative roofing system. We shouldn’t be wasting precious taxpayer money on a new, state-of-the-art vegetative roofing system.

I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, ‘Son, be an architect,’ and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.

In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie. A sequence of spaces, which is what you do as an architect, is really the same as a sequence of scenes.

My father was a German architect and graphic designer, who travelled all over the world, teaching teachers on how to teach. On one such visit to the Max Mueller Bhavan in Delhi, he met my mother.

Can’t nothing make your life work if you ain’t the architect.

When he was eighteen, my dad went off to college to become an architect.

As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored ‘Dortmunder’ novels, I wrote, ‘His natural ability to observe human behavior and to follow an idea, no matter how bizarre, through to its proper, rightful finish echoed the vision of an architect.’

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn’t going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It’s been really fun.

A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and dreams, then create a beautiful yet tangible solution that is loved by the users and the community at large. We create vessels in which life happens.

When the Americans are behind you, they’re behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you to lead a building project – to make the kind of big and costly decisions that, in Britain, have been handed over to project managers and cost-cutters.

After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for ‘The Monkees‘ came along.

I think creating of any sort, whatever line you’re in, is paramount – you can be an architect, you can be a banker, you can be anything – I think that when you create, you’re closest to God and yourself.

Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.

I was studying to be an architect, I wasn’t plotting to join the movies. Films were just another career option. I took acting up with the same schoolgirl enthusiasm I had for examinations. Acting is a job and I take it very seriously.

I did everything, I thought I was going to be in marketing, then I thought advertising then I thought I was going to be an architect and then I was like ‘you know what, let me just be a soap star!’

With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects – the building is there to be used, and times change.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

When I left Washington, we actually had a balanced budget and we paid down the most amount of the national debt in modern history and cut taxes and created jobs. And I was the chief architect of that plan in ’97.

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

So if you’re a customer today, the same person who came in to demonstrate the technology for you and helped you architect the solution before you bought it is likely going to be leading the team to help you do the implementation.

It’s amazing how you meet people through other people. I knew a racecar driver, Stefan Johansson, who was very hot. He introduced me to Jean Todt. He introduced me to a French doctor. He introduced me to a French architect who redid the Louvre with I.M. Pei. He introduced me to Daniel Boulud.

I worked with my dad for 15 years. I apprenticed under him and decided I wanted to become an architect. So I went to college for it and then the acting bug got me.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

We’ve taken on health care in a big way in our office, ever since nine years ago when I was paralyzed. I was in eight different hospitals, three different rehab centers, and all the rooms were dreadful. As an architect, designer, and patient, I can do something to help.

If you’re talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it – much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears’ 27th birthday and for the ‘Circus’ album she put out – the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens – and photography immediately started to invade my life.

I grew up in a very visual household. My dad is a designer; my sister is a designer. My brother is an amazing architect who does music. But I think in the Chung household, how things looked was an important part of who you are.

All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it’s difficult to quantify the attachment.

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.

I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don’t know.

I’m just fascinated by houses. In another life, I’d have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I’d collect them like other people collect teapots. I don’t know why I love them so much. I’m just very interested in the idea of a house as a metaphor for the way one lives.

When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.

The architect who first inspired me to follow this profession was Sir John Soane and his Regency home; well, his three homes, now a museum. The place is like an encyclopedia of paintings, antiquities, furniture, sculptures, and drawings.

A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don’t call myself that, but I believe it’s true.

I never know if I’m the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, ‘No. This is not for me.’

I could have been an architect, but I don’t think I’d have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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.

During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as ‘sketches‘ for ideas that are often later translated to the larger scale of public commissions.

My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect.

I tell people I would like to have been an architect. I like the creative aspect of that. I like the idea of something on a piece of paper coming to life.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn’t like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

If I’ve been an architect of my own career in any fashion, one thing that I’ve attempted to do is not get typecast, in order to be able to play all different kind of characters. I think I’ve done a pretty good job of that over the years.

From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.

God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.

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

The architect works in the territory of memory.

My husband and I met on OKCupid. We went out on our little coffee date, and I knew right away he was my husband. He’s a handsome, smarty-pants architect from Tokyo. On our first date, I said, ‘I wake up like this. I’m Pollyanna Sunshine, and I’m not for everyone‘.

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect’s plan for a building and the builder’s list of supplies. It specified the parts, the building blocks, and, somehow, the design of the whole, the way in which they are to be put together.

Duncan Jones has skills; he’s an architect of emotional dislocation.

It’s often said that if doing something was easy, everyone would be doing it. I think that’s particularly true when you’re trying to make your mark or architect your own career. There’s often not a path to follow.

I actually wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I did a solid geometry course where we had to build a geodesic dome out of toothpicks, and mine came out looking like an alien space station. I threw it against a wall and gave up.

The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected the drawing-based Beaux-Arts tradition in favor of a more technocratic approach.

The word ‘celebrity‘ and the word ‘architect’ are basically incompatible.

As a child I wanted to become an architect.

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself as an architect – but I think I might need to go back to school for that.

Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice – or of an architect who didn’t bother to find out why buildings stand up?

I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

The reason for a lot of bands not making it is because they don’t really understand that your job is sort of divided into two different things. It’s one thing creating it… It’s like being an architect but also a construction worker.

If you were a son of mine, I wouldn’t want you to be an architect, because it’s a tough way to be in the world.

I’m an architect. Before you start pouring the concrete, you build a foundation that is solid so that when you take the scaffolding down, it holds – forever. So that when junior high schools are doing ‘Hunchback,’ a 12-year-old as Frollo still works on some level.

My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.

I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.

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.

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also fails, grasping the shadow instead of the substance.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I’ve always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There’s no question about it.

I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back to school.