An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be in the world.
Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own, and that this world of its own serves an institution.
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.