Quotes About Architects

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

Images are inherently fascistic because they overstamp the truth, however dim and blurred, of the real past experience; as if, faced with ruins, we must turn architects, not archeologists.

The members of the functional and socially mobilized under class must, in some very real way, be seen as the architects of their own fate. If not, they could be, however marginally, on the conscience of the comfortable. There could be a disturbing feeling, however fleeting, of unease, even guilt.

In the opinion of architects such as Harvey Wiley Corbett, skyscrapers were America's great gift to architecture, the first new structural form since the ancient Romans

Less than two weeks after the selection of the architects had been made, the directors awarded the building contract to Starrett Bros. & Eken.

Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and often public money.

Of course, the irony is that the kind of centralized administrative state Croly advocated, and which surrounds us today and is managed by a relative handful of architects, is all but immune from the popular will and completely impervious to direct popular sovereignty. In

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

Our task is to implement Jesus' unique achievement . We are like the musicians called to play and sing the unique and once-only-written musical score. We don't have to write it again, but we have to play it. Or, in the image Paul uses in I Corinthians 3, we are now in the position of young architects discovering a wonderful foundation already laid by a master architect and having to work out what sort of building was intended.

Well hath he been called one of the architects of civilization.