Architect - Architecture Quotes

To build is to be robbed.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architect, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

A house is a machine for living in.

There is a beautiful cave called Fingal’s (on the Isle of Staffa); which proves that nature loves Gothic architecture.

Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune, but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.

An architect is the drawer of dreams.

A leading architect once built a cluster of office buildings set in a central green. The landscape crew asked him where he wanted the sidewalks between the buildings. His reply: “Just plant grass between the buildings.” By late summer the new lawn was laced with pathways of trodden grass. The paths followed the most efficient […]

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.