Architects Quotes

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.

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.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that.

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that.

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