#architects

It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin. ↗

— Olafur Eliasson

#around #artists #berlin #designers #even

Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to that. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#back #bland #built #cities #cold

The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#appealing #architects #chiefs #constructive #envisioned

The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events. ↗

— Arthur Erickson

#artists #creations #events #great #historical

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

#architects #designed #hands #honorable #intentions

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#called #future #victims

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects. ↗

— Benjamin Haydon

#artists #england #legitimate #only

Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in. Because this is the finish of it. It is the emotional part of a structure. I had great satisfaction in doing that. ↗

— John Hench

#because #color #colors #critical #doing

The Washingtonian said it shouldn't be built. The gallery's East Building is now considered a triumph, and members of the American Association of Architects have voted it one of the best buildings of all time. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#architects #association #best #building #buildings

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. ↗

— Edwin Lutyens

#architecture #great #never #patrons #will