Architect Quotes - Page 2

The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship.

Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power. Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to visualize their power and money by making monumental architecture. I love to make monuments, too, but I thought perhaps we can use our experience and knowledge more for the general public, even for those who have lost their houses in natural disasters.

If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.

If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect.

Architecture is an expression of values.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

My work is not about "form follows function," but "form follows beauty" or, even better, "form follows feminine."

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Space is the breath of art.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

When a man is not satisfied with a house where he lives, he becomes an architect