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• All are architects of fate working in these walls of time.

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• You can say I’m not the easiest architect in the world, because I’m always trying to push the limits.

  Steven Holl

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• An architect is only really a glorified tailor and if people want a suit – as long as they don’t ask for three sleeves or something – it’s do-able.

  Quinlan Terry

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• I am an architect, first.

  Hugh Hardy

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• I used to not like being called a ‘woman architect’: I’m an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, ‘You are okay for a girl.’ But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don’t mind that at all.

  Zaha Hadid

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• When I was a kid, I thought I was going to be an architect, because when I was 12 years old I had a guidance counselor that convinced me that that was the best career choice for me.

  Al Yankovic

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• As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.

  Gianfranco Ferre

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• There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

  Edwin Lutyens

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• It is most necessary to avoid rusticity in any way, whether in material, design, or execution.

  George Edmund Street

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• I feel most strongly about Jerusalem, because architects ultimately have to address that city.

  Ben Nicholson

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• The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

  Rem Koolhaas

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• I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces, which I enjoyed very much.

  Parker Stevenson

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• Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.

  Ambrose Bierce

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• All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

  Philip Johnson

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• 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.

  John Ruskin

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• A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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• Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind. ‘Think simples’ as my old master used to say – meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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• No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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• Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

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• You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe – when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

  Charles, Prince of Wales

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