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It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable.

If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect.

Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

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 not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.