Architect Quotes

I choose work that is hard to pull off. And it's scary how things can go wrong. But if there's no risk involved, it's not challenging. A good idea will survive any process.
I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.
I paint daily with watercolors on 5-by-7-inch pads that are small enough for me to take them everywhere.
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
I'm sorry to say, but 85% of so-called 'green' firms make some of the ugliest buildings that were ever made. So for God's sake, I don't want to be categorized with them.
My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level.
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.
Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong with that.
The whole notion of an embassy is like 'The Other.' That's what makes Washington interesting.
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits.
Architecture is invention.
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.
Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
Form follows beauty.
Humanity needs dreams to be able to survive the miseries of daily existence, even if only for an instant.
I am a Brazilian before I am an architect. I cannot separate the two.
I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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