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.
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 ...
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true.
I am the architect of rock n' roll. I have to be a fan of all its forms.
Barack Obama has been the architect of policies that have hurt our country domestically as well as foreign.
Who knows, maybe I am simply a talented architect?
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 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.
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
I am so often the architect of my own pain and the engineer of my own failures.
Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time.
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?'
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.
Willem de Kooning as an artist is insane, Sonia Rykiel is amazing for her colour sensibility, and Ettore Sottsass was an architect and product designer who sometimes created clothes to go with his other designs.
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
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.
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.
