#architects

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

— Edwin Lutyens

#architecture #great #never #patrons #will

The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of private companies and dozens of local economies hugging the Capital Beltway. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#architects #beautiful #been #beltway #boom

I hesitated, too, because for better or worse, I have been one of the principal architects of New Labour and I have worked closely with Tony Blair and the team for nearly 20 years. ↗

— Peter Mandelson

#because #been #better #blair #closely

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. ↗

— Thom Mayne

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Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#builders #disillusionment #grandeur #master #often

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

— Ben Nicholson

#address #architects #because #city #feel

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ↗

— John Portman

#architects #attention #believe #building #concentrate

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. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#architects #because #believe #effect #enjoy

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#architects #before #believe #builders #days

The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from. ↗

— Ricky Skaggs

#artists #between #came #difference #history