You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.
Before I was 20, I was the leading architect of the Southwest.
Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant.
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.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
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.
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects.
There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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.
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.
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.
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.
Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
L'architecture éveille en l'homme des états d'âme.. La tâche des architectes est de préciser ces états d'âmes.
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
I said that I have finished telling my story, not that the story is finished. I said before that no story is ever really finished, each one is part of a longer story and consists of smaller stories, some of which are told, others passed over in silen...
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.
