Architect Quotes - page 2

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create. (Ian Hacking)
In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low. View quote
Christopher Alexander
It is not as a very great philosopher, nor as an eloquent rhetorician, nor as a grammarian trained in the highest principles of his heart, that I have striven to write this work, but as an architect who has had only a dip into those studies. View quote
Vitruvius
When it appears that a work has been carried out sumptuously, the owner will be the person to be praised for the great outlay which ha has authorized; when delicately, the master workmen will be approved for his execution; but when proportions and symmetry lend it an imposing effect, then the glory of it will belong to the architect. View quote
Vitruvius
The architect should also have a knowledge of the study of medicine on account of the questions of climates, air, the healthiness and unhealthiness of sites, and the use of different waters. For without these considerations the healthiness of a dwelling cannot be assured. View quote
Vitruvius
There is nothing to which an architect should devote more thought than to the exact proportions of his building with reference to a certain part selected as the standard. View quote
Vitruvius
You know, it is life that is right and the architect who is wrong. View quote
Le Corbusier
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect. View quote
Terry McMillan
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. View quote
Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty. View quote
Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Every man is the architect of his own fortune. View quote
Sallust
But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune. View quote
Sallust
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality. View quote
Karl Marx
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist. View quote
Peter Zumthor
I'll sue!" Ian sputtered. "I'll sue you AND the dog. And the country of South Korea. And... and..." "The landscape architect?" Natalie asked. "The landscape architect!" Ian shouted. View quote
Peter Lerangis
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. View quote
Renzo Piano
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. View quote
Renzo Piano
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and-oh, yeah-head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare time. View quote
Rick Riordan
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect." "To build something permanent," I said. "A monument to last a thousand years. View quote
Rick Riordan
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. (Santiago Calatrava)
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the streets. View quote
Santiago Calatrava
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. View quote
Toyo Ito
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect. View quote
Cameron Sinclair
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. View quote
Cameron Sinclair