Architect Quotes

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.
A builder is like a little god - somebody who does things, doesn't just draw things.
A piazza is not a plaza. The plaza is the theme park of the piazza; the plaza is the commercial version. A piazza is an empty space with no function. This is what Europeans understand.
Architects have to dream. We have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do.
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.
Enjoying art is a personal matter. It's made up by contemplation, silence, abstraction.
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