You can not create the architecture of tomorrow without forgetting the architecture of yesterday. Today.
Winston Churchill
Ask not what your architecture can do for you. Ask what you can do for your architecture. Then invoice the client.
John F. Kennedy
Never in the field of architecture was so much owed by so many to so few architects with such small fees.
Winston Churchill
For clients who like that kind of architecture that is the kind of architecture they will like.
Abraham Lincoln
You can fool some of the architects all of the time, and all of the architects some of the time, but you can not fool all of the architects all of the time. Obviously, that would result in a change order.
Abraham Lincoln
If you have any young friends who aspire to become architects, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of “A Pattern Language“. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
Dorothy Parker
Keep away from architects who try to belittle your ambitions. Small architects always do that, but the really great architects make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
Architecture is the embodiment of hope. Hope for our future. Hope for our children’s future. Hope for our future invoices.
Barack Obama
Great architecture is achieved by simply removing all the parts that are not needed. Like all the furniture.
Michaelangelo
The two most important days in your life are the day you become an architect and the day you find out why.
Mark Twain
Clothing makes the architect. Naked architects have little to no influence on society.
Mark Twain
Black clothing, obviously. Also, Don’t click here.
