Top Architects Quotes
Women are the real architects of society.
Cher
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
J. Carter Brown
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
Paul Hoffman
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
Ralph Thomas Walker
Ricky Skaggs 
Kenzo Tange 
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 
R. Buckminster Fuller 
Rem Koolhaas 
Arthur Erickson 
John Portman All Architects Quotes
The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time.
J. Carter Brown 
58% of people like this quote
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens
57% of people like this quote
The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned.
Paul Hoffman
57% of people like this quote
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
Ralph Thomas Walker
56% of people like this quote
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas
56% of people like this quote
We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
R. Buckminster Fuller
55% of people like this quote
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
Thom Mayne
54% of people like this quote
The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from.
Ricky Skaggs
54% of people like this quote
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
54% of people like this quote
Popular Architects Authors
Lucius Annaeus SenecaBryant H. McGillArthur EricksonR. Buckminster FullerWilliam S. BurroughsAnthony Holden CherJohn HenchParker StevensonHelmut JahnPeter MandelsonTadao AndoBen NicholsonThom MayneRobin Day
Jimmy BreslinPaul HoffmanRichard RogersRem KoolhaasRicky SkaggsKenzo TangeJ. Carter BrownBenjamin HaydonHugh SideyPhilip JohnsonTed DexterJohn PortmanRalph Thomas WalkerEdwin Lutyens
More »