Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they take the chair

Quote by Karen Moyer

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Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to...

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to...

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his client to...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The...

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is...

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like...