Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.
Architects always have a feel for time - the generation they live in - as we do, and they are always striving toward boundless adventure.