Frances Mayes

I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.

American Educator

Jesse James Garrett

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

American Businessman

I. M. Pei

One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.

American Architect

John Portman

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

Jean Nouvel

It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most important work and duty of the architect to find out.

French Architect

Hill Harper

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.

American Actor

Greg Lynn

It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to do.

Zaha Hadid

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

British Architect

Terry McMillan

Can't nothing make your life work if you ain't the architect.

American Author

Damon Dash

I had to architect my life where I could raise my children.

Architects need deep knowledge of design, materials, and regulations.

Design Expertise

Architects often oversee construction to ensure design integrity.

Supervision Role

The term suggests creativity in designing structures that please and function well.

Creative Vision

Architects can shape strategies or movements, not just physical spaces.

Mastermind Behind

Focus on the role in conceptualizing and defining complex ideas or systems.

Complex Systems

Refers to planning the fundamental aspects of tech projects or systems.

Tech Structure

In computing, architect often implies creating a blueprint for software development.

IT Blueprint

 to collaborate very quickly. And so, I thought this was an interesting idea, and I incorporated it into a design workshop. And it was a huge success. And since then, I've conducted about 70 design workshops across the world with students and designers and architects,

Build a tower, build a...

 The higher we build, the higher the gravitational pressure from the upper stories on the lower ones. This principle has long dictated the shape of our buildings, leading ancient architects to favor pyramids with wide foundations that support lighter upper levels.

Will there ever be a...

 and the shifting tectonic plates go much deeper than building foundations. So what's actually going on? In fact, the reality of earthquakes and their effect on buildings is a bit more complicated. To make sense of it, architects and engineers use models,

Why do buildings fall in...

 as who or what we are against. The cliche of the radical architect is the sort of angry young man rebelling against the establishment. Or this idea of the misunderstood genius, frustrated that the world doesn't fit in with his or her ideas.

Bjarke Ingels: 3...

 we after all are the architects of the urban world now over half of us live in an urban environment my home too is here in this city of london looking down on this great metropolis the ingenuity with which we continue to

Cities That Are Saving...

 I promise you I'm not trying to go that close to the edge. All right! - Ah! - Hey, that was good. Phew! So how did the idea for this come about? As an architect, I've been working for most of my adult life

How To Levitate PIPE The...

 However, it paid off. Peek into any hive -- with your protective goggles and netting on, of course -- and you'll see the end a beautiful compact honeycomb that any architect would have be proud to design.

Why do honeybees love...

 And finally, we're not on opposite sides anymore. Find an architect, hire an architect, work with us to design better buildings, better cities, and a better world, because the stakes are high.

Why the buildings of the...

 So, we must ask if an architect could design a self cooling building with termite inspired climate control, what other innovations can Mother Nature inspire if we just paid closer attention?

See How Termites...

 challenge but then against all odds this original man Filippo Brunelleschi the world's first architect cracked a hundred and twenty-five year old code now I first heard about Filippo story