129 Quotes About Architect

  • Author David Maroney
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    The process works best if the architect is able to engage the client and draw out all the important parameters in terms of cost and design.

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  • Author Jeff Martin
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    We hired the same architect specifically because they were doing the Cannery project, and the hope was that this project would link Monterey Street to the Cannery District. The city really felt strongly that linking the areas is really important - it will bring all those residents and workers downtown.

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  • Author Robert McGregor
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    In any New Zealand town, even small country towns, you will find at least one Art Deco house. These were not built by intellectuals using an avant-garde architect as you might have found in the United States. These were built by builders using handbooks for young married couples who didn't have any intellectual pretensions at all.

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  • Author Sydney Madwed
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    Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

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  • Author Evan Osnos
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    When I lived in Beijing in 1996, it was a horizontal city. If you wanted to go out for a burger, if you wanted to really treat yourself, you went to this place called the Jianguo Hotel. The architect had proudly described it as a perfect replica of a Holiday Inn that he had seen in Palo Alto, California.

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  • Author Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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    Numerous are the posthumous museums and memorials devoted exclusively to one artist, architect or author and designed to preserve or artificially reconstruct the namesake's original working or living conditions.

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  • Author David Parks
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    The biggest thing is the architect didn't have a contractor involved on the project from the beginning. That would have made things go by quicker.

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