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Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.
— Richard Neutra
Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people.
— Christopher Alexander
When the materials are ready, the architects shall appear.
— Walt Whitman
As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities.
— Magnus Larsson
Architects are the new comedians.
— Simon Doonan
As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.
— Erik Larson
From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city.
— Colm Toibin
Since ancient times artists and architects have seen in the golden mean the most aesthetically satisfying geometric ratio.
— Stephen M. Barr
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future.
— Harry S. Truman
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.
— Parker Stevenson
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.
— David Chipperfield
Architects design houses. I live in a home.
— Peter Eisenman
There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists.
— Richard Engel
In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
— Zaha Hadid
Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy
— Frank Lloyd Wright
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.
— Quinlan Terry
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
— William H. Whyte
As architects we have a responsibility
to society — Richard Rogers
to society — Richard Rogers
Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.
— Jomo Kenyatta
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
— Jamie L. Harding
I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.
— Ben Nicholson
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.
— Frank Gehry
Like architects, researchers build models to represent the real world.
— Dahlia K. Remler
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
— Alain De Botton
All clients think that they are architects.
— Annabelle Selldorf
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.
— Kim Gandy
Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way you can build its future.
— Kyung-Sook Shin
It is no use working with other architects. What can they do? Who does what?
— Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.
— Lauren Conrad
Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.
— Bryant H. McGill
The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs to everyone.
— Michael Graves
We are the architects of our own happiness
— Gerald Causse
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.
— Denise Scott Brown
Architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller
— Cedric Price
My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.
— Heber J. Grant
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
— Philip Johnson
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
— David Chipperfield
Architects face this threat, but builders don't.
— Matthew B. Crawford
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints.
— Bernard Tschumi
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
— Renzo Piano
In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work ...
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.
— Tom Watson
Privatization will always be a timid ideology as long as architects are allowed to unveil their buildings.
— Bauvard
I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
— Eli Broad
Musicians are the architects of heaven.
— Bobby McFerrin
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.
— Appius Claudius Caecus
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
— Ted Dexter
We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be
— Curtis W. Fentress
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
— Michael Hansmeyer
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
— Colleen Barrett
Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
— Pat Gillick
Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.
— Arlie Russell Hochschild
In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
— Winifred Gallagher
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
— Arthur Erickson
Though there are things beyond our understanding, for the most part we are the architects of our own unhappiness.
— Yasmina Khadra
When we compare ourselves to engineers or architects, we are in danger of doing everyone a disservice.
— Sam Newman
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road.
— Ove Arup
Golf course architects make me sick. They can't play themselves, so they rig the courses so nobody else can play either.
— Sam Snead
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition.
— Helmut Jahn
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
— Rafael Vinoly
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
— Mark Twain
A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.
— Hugh Sidey
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.
— Brian Webb
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
— Zaha Hadid
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
— Janet Echelman
But then architects don't build their own houses.
— Damien Hirst
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
I think that all architects, structural engineers, educators, and service personnel should have to spend a day in a wheelchair as part of training.
— Juli K. Dixon
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
— Kenzo Tange
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.
— William S. Burroughs
Don't picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.
— John Eldredge
They will be the architects of my fate, I think to myself, despite what Sybil said about my being the author of my own destiny.
— Kim White
Brands must become architects of community.
— Simon Mainwaring
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything.
— Bill Watterson
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
— Renzo Piano
Norns are incredible architects. They simply use death as a building block. Andacellus, Viddion marah.
— Taylor Grace
Business owners should think of designers as architects, not decorators.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
— David O. McKay