Architect Quotes

It is through accomplishment that man makes his contribution and contribution is life's greatest reward.
We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.
A slighted woman knows no bounds.
Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her.
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
Never turn down a job because you think it's too small; you don't know where it can lead.
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
At the age of 80, I'm becoming a visual artist. This could be my rebirth.
Borne out of this, starting around the 17th Century was the Baroque era. It is my view that it is one of the architectural peak periods in western civilisation.
Fifty years ago people were talking about Sydney's sprawl, but nobody does anything about it.
From the early days of European migration to America, in the 17th Century, the prototype of buildings was based on English precedent, even if mostly translated into the locally available material in abundance: timber.
Good design doesn't date.
I've always thought Blues Point Tower is one of my best buildings and I stand by that.
It doesn't worry me that people have criticised the building.
Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.
The form language used by the ancient Egyptians in their structures is minimal.
The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
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