Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process to generate objects.
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people.
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case.
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.
The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.
All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
You look at energy use in the U. S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is manufacturing and one-third of it is buildings. That means architects are responsible for one-third of energy by their designs. So not only is it dire, it's also something that we can do.
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the past. what was, has always been. what is, has always been. and what will be, has always been. such is the nature of beginning.
As architects we have a responsibility to society
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space.
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off.
I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.
Architects cannot teach nature anything.
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be
Architects are the new comedians.
Purses are dreamt up by artists, not architects.