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From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of Vitruvius.
I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration's foreign policy.
Steve Bannon is the architect of the entire blitzkrieg that we're seeing against American values and the American people.
I was born during the war, on October 20, 1942, as the second of five children. My father, Rolf Volhard, was an architect.
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody.
The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.
Appreciation and gratitude are a must if you choose to become the architect of increased happiness and your own fulfillment.
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not in their box.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
From the intrinsic evidence of his creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician.
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.
No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate ourselves from.
If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the lines of a design.
Have you ever heard of a pianist who never had to practice - or of an architect who didn't bother to find out why buildings stand up?
It gives me the creeps when I see a frame for a building going up and recognise the architect. You shouldn't know who a project is by.
The architect works for so many years building it, and the moment you deliver it to the people is the moment when you are unnecessary.
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else knew.
I'm strong-willed. Architects are strong-willed. You get the best results with a strong client and a strong architect working together.
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid it.
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me as an Israeli architect.
I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude is that the script is the muse.
After high school I was going to be an architect. In fact, I was studying to be an architect when the audition for 'The Monkees' came along.
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.
It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines we need.
My grandfather was the architect behind NAFTA, and that has created so much economic opportunity, not only in our country, but in Latin America.
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can call yourself an architect.
Abusers are engineers and architects and janitors and police officers and any other walk of life. There's not a job or profession that is exempt.
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate about becoming an architect.
I've never left China. My family's been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I'm a western architect.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.
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.
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be built. I want to be an architect.
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.