The sun never knew how great it was until it struck the side of a building. – Louis Kahn
I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. – Frank Gehry
You can use an eraser on the drafting table or a sledge hammer on the construction site. – Frank Lloyd Wright
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. – Norman Foster
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? ― Zaha Hadid
Architecture is the art of how to waste space. – Philip Johnson
I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. – Renzo Piano
My buildings are more famous than me. – Jean Nouvel
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. – Le Corbusier
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper. – Alvar Aalto
Architect doesn’t announce themselves, their work announce them.