#architect

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. ↗

— Julia Morgan

#art #buildings #speak #themselves #visual

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. ↗

— Julia Morgan

#after #buildings #gone #i #legacy

The higher the building the lower the morals. ↗

— Noel Coward

#building #higher #lower #morals

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#complete #design #drawn #furniture #i

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#business #concerned #contingent #design #engineering

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

#design #express #flat #forms #i

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. ↗

— John Portman

#around #buildings #other #people #serve

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life. ↗

— Walter Scott

#call #himself #history #knowledge #lawyer

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. ↗

— John Ruskin

#haughty #simple #which