Quotes About Architect

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all in this way. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Life lies before us, as a huge quarry lies before the architect: he deserves not the name of architect, except when, out of this fortuitous mass, he can combine, with the greatest economy and fitness and durability, some form, the pattern of which originated in his spirit.

Change there will be, as there has been throughout these... years. For he who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

former atheist and astronomer Alan Sandage, said, "As I said before, the world is too complicated in all of its parts to be due to chance alone. I am convinced that the existence of life with all its order in each of its organisms is simply too well put together. . . . The more one learns of biochemistry the more unbelievable it becomes unless there is some kind of organizing principle—an architect for believers.

He studied at the Bauhaus, you know." "So that makes him trustworthy? Because he's an architect?" "A modernist architect." "You've got an odd sense of trust, my love. He's still a German, and you can never trust a German. Always remember that." "Yes, my dear, I'll keep that in mind.

Lucien had complete creative freedom. It wasn't just a canard that an architect needed a good client to produce great art.

Does your architect know what the word mensch means?" "Yes, I once explained that word to him." "Please tell him again for me that he's a mensch." "I'll

Details derail sales. Buyers want to be stirred into action. American architect and urban designer Daniel Burnham understood this. When he was eulogized by his arch rival Frank Lloyd Wright as "an enthusiastic promoter of great construction enterprises," Wright spoke to Burnham's sales abilities more than his architectural style, and said, "His powerful personality was supreme.

Are you a contractor?" "No, I'm legit." He made me laugh, even at such an old joke. "Actually, I'm an architect. That's just a general contractor who doesn't have enough ambition to make any money.

I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't do something unless I know I can do it.

If God hired an architect to design heaven, this was how it would be done.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

The chief object of every golf architect or greenkeeper worth his salt is to imitate the beauties of nature so closely as to make his work indistinguishable from nature itself.

Consider the situation: Money that was provided because of social networks rather than need; a project designed for prestige rather than to be used; a lack of monitoring and accountability; and an architect appointed for show by somebody with little interest in the quality of the work. The outcome is hardly surprising: a project that should never have been built was built, and built badly.

L'Eixample, Langdon thought. The Widening. Visionary city architect Ildefons Cerdà had widened all the intersections in this district by shaving the corners off the square blocks to create mini plazas, with better visibility, increased airflow, and abundant space for outdoor cafés.

And not only an architect, as General Compson said, but an artist since only an artist could have borne those two years in order to build a house which he doubtless not only expected but firmly intended never to see again.

defining moments can be consciously created. You can be the architect of moments that matter.

Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.

If life realizes a plan, it ought to manifest a greater harmony the further it advances, just as the house shows better and better the idea of the architect as stone is set upon stone. If, on the contrary, the unity of life is to be found solely in the impetus that pushes it along the road of time, the harmony is not in front, but behind.

Instead, therefore, of saying that Man is the creature of Circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that Man is the architect of Circumstance. It is Character which builds an existence out of Circumstance. Our strength is measured by our plastic power. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels, one warehouses, another villas.

La poésie ressemble à la mort. Je connais son Å"il bleu. Il donne la nausée. Cette nausée d'architecte toujours taquinant le vide, voilà le propre du poète. Le poète est, comme nous, invisible aux vivants.

The thing is, I hate the celebrity architect thing. I just do my work.