Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
Architect - Architecture Quotes
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas, bricks and mortar are mortar and […]
Architecture is the printing press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected.
Old houses mended, cost little less than new before they’re ended.
Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair.
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
It was always the work that was the gyroscope in my life. I don’t know who could have lived with me. As an architect you’re absolutely devoured. A woman’s cast in a lot of roles and a man isn’t. I couldn’t be an architect and be a wife and mother.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture – it’s a really stupid thing to want to do.
