Architect - Architecture Quotes

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.

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

Architecture never lies. It invariably expresses both its own era and the character of the men who build it and… this was a restless, showy architecture, the architecture of an age and a city that felt they need never stop going, that there wasn’t a “too far.” The glorious skyline would look completely different a […]

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

Architecture is the work of nations.

Greek genius… Then we have it once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself, limited to the straight line and the square, – a builded geometry.

When we build, let us think that we build for ever.