Today we’re looking at the most famous architect quotes from the world’s most loved architects and designers including; Zaha Hadid, Richard Rogers, Yinka Ilori, Mies van der Rohe, Maya Lin, Mariam Kamara, David Adjaye, Louis Sullivan, Louis Kahn, Rem Koolhaas, Francis Kere, Frank Lloyd Wright, Leonardo da Vinci, Le Corbusier, Norman Foster, Kunle Adeyemi, Frank Ghery, Eileen Gray, Charles Eames, David Chipperfield, Buckminster Fuller, Daniel Liebeskind and Philip Johnson.
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Famous Architect Quotes:
# 52.
Yinka Ilori
"As designers, we have such power to make design change the world. We really need to make better use of our platform and do stuff that is useful"
# 51.
Zaha Hadid
"There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?"
# 50.
Richard Rogers
"Dyslexia made me realize that people who say 'but you can't do that' aren't actually very important. I don't take 'no' too seriously."
# 49.
David Adjaye
"Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche"
# 48.
Mies van der Rohe
"God is in the details"
# 47.
Maya Lin
"For the most part things never get built the way they were drawn"
# 46.
Francis Kere
"If we learn to build with local materials, we have a future."
# 45.
Louis Sullivan
"Form ever follows function"
# 44.
Louis Kahn
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
# 43.
Rem Koolhaas
"The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs."
# 42.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Freedom is from within."
# 41.
Kunle Adeyemi
"Ignorance is bliss... with this innocence you can create and question a lot of things"
# 40.
Leonardo da Vinci
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
# 39.
Le Corbusier
"Architecture is the learned game, correct & magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
# 38.
Mariam Kamara
"Architecture is the stage on which we live our lives."
# 37.
Zaha Hadid
"Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?"
# 36.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
# 35.
Richard Rogers
"I love my job. What would I retire to?"
# 34.
Norman Foster
"I think you never stop learning."
# 33.
Yinka Ilori
"There is a Nigerian parable that says, "You shouldn't throw stones as a bird may fly away."
If someone has a passion then let them do it. Let people be what they want to be."
# 32.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
# 31.
Frank Ghery
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
# 30.
Eileen gray
"To create one must first question everything."
# 29.
Charles Eames
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
# 28.
David Adjaye
"For me, architecture is a social act."
# 27.
David Chipperfield
"Britain loves a bargain... but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap."
# 26.
Buckminster Fuller
"When i'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I've finished, if the solution is not beautiful... I know it's wrong."
# 25.
Maya Lin
"To fly we have to have resistance."
# 24.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Buildings, too, are children of the Earth and Sun."
# 23.
Mariam Kamara
"Architecture itself can not make a more equitable world... but we can contribute with specific actions."
# 22.
Zaha Hadid
"Architecture is really about well-being. On the one hand it's about shelter, I think that people want to feel good in a space... but it's also about pleasure."
# 21.
Frank Ghery
"I work from the inside out."
# 20.
David Chipperfield
"The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it."
# 19.
David Adjaye
"Context is so important, not to mimic... but to become part of the place."
# 18.
Maya Lin
"Nothing is ever guaranteed, and all that came before doesn't predicate what you might do next."
# 17.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
# 16.
Yinka Ilori
"Why should I feel like I don't belong?"
# 15.
Frank Ghery
"The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that."
# 14.
Maya Lin
"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
# 13.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
# 12.
Daniel Libeskind
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history... but to articulate it."
# 11.
Mariam Kamara
"Design can be a powerful tool for good."
# 10.
Frank Ghery
"You've got to bumble forward into the unknown."
# 09.
Zaha Hadid
"I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes."
# 08.
Philip Johnson
"I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach?"
# 07.
Zaha Hadid
"I don't think that architecture is only about shelter... it should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think."
# 06.
Francis Kere
"Architecture is about people."
# 05.
Frank Ghery
"I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do."
# 04.
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
# 03.
Zaha Hadid
"Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?"
# 02.
Mies van der Rohe
"Less is more"
And our favorite famous architect quote of all time...
# 01.
Frank Ghery
"I refuse to work unless I get paid, so I don't get a lot of work sometimes."
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