Architect - Architecture Quotes

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.

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.