#architect

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

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Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#architect #blame #builds #built #changing

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

— Thom Mayne

#buildings #means #own #speak #their

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

Each new situation requires a new architecture. ↗

— Jean Nouvel

#each #new #requires #situation

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. ↗

— Thomas Reid

#built #house #navigation #never #rules

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#epoch #into #space #translated #will

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

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams. ↗

— Robert A. M. Stern

#about #any #architect #because #between