Architects Quotes

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact. ”
― William S. Burroughs

“There is an effective strategy open to architects. Whereas doctors deal with the interior organisms of man, architects deal with the exterior organisms of man. Architects might join with one another to carry on their work in laboratories as do doctors in anticipatory medicine.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

“Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale of the total world pattern of needs, its resource flows, its recirculatory and regenerative processes.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller, Ideas and Integrities: A Spontaneous Autobiographical Disclosure

“Since our divorce from nature with the industrial revolution, the major challenge for architecture remains a challenge of language as we replace units of growth with units of construction.”
― Neri Oxman

“Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.”
― Jamie L. Harding

“Passion is creativity on fire”
― Suzy Davies

“when god creat the world,first he must think abour architects”
― Ashok Sharma

“Designers need to understand various perspectives that exist in the world—and to be able to speak many different “languages” in order to translate these ideas in meaningful ways.”
― Tania Allen, Solving Critical Design Problems: Theory and Practice

“And honestly, the thing is... there is something special about those monuments. Despite how we might apply our own individual thoughts and interpretations to them... Even if they wrote books filled with precise explanations about how and why Gaudi did things the way he did... there would still be something pure in his work that will never change. Something no scholar could ever explain. Something those crimes could not erase. Something like... a spirit. Like a dream buried in time. A life.”
― El Torres, The Ghost Of Gaudi

“Come dreamers, / be our architects!

(from Architects of the Impossible)”
― Robert J. Tiess, The Humbling and Other Poems

“With an architect as your guide, you can
responsibly stop worrying about what spaces
someone else might want in a house and focus only on those things your house should include.”
― Kevin Harris, The Forever Home: How to work with an architect to design the home of your dreams

“The more an architect puts nature at the forefront when drawing a building, the more successful he is!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“…we human beings are, at our psychological core, game players; we have a predilection for rule systems (which we also like to transgress), strategies (in which we like to display cunning) and competition (in which we like to establish our superiority over others).”
― Simon Unwin, Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture

“An architect intent on being different may in the end prove as troubling as an over-imaginative pilot or doctor.”
― Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness

“...perhaps powerful architects are worse than powerful philosophers; at a certain point they lose themselves in their heavenly kingdom.”
― Franco La Cecla, Against Architecture

“• Should we reclaim an Indigenous language in a natural Indigenous setting, to replicate the original ambience of heritage, culture, laws, and lores?
• Should we reclaim an Indigenous language in a modern building that has Indigenous characteristics such as Aboriginal colours and shapes?
• Should we reclaim an Aboriginal language in a western governmental
building—to give an empowering signal that the tribe has full support of contemporary mainstream society?”
― Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Revivalistics : From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond

“Architecture is a reflection of the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

“Are Politicians the architects of society or are Writers the architects of society?”
― Avijeet Das

“Are Poets and Writers are the Architects of Society?”
― Avijeet Das