num_pages: 160
description: If there's anything architects like doing more than designing buildings it's talking about architecture. Whether musing about their inspirations (a blank sheet of paper the sun hitting the side of a building) expanding on each other's thoughts (on materials collaboration clients and constraints) or dishing out a clever quip architects make good copy. The Architect Says is a colorful compendium of quotations from more than one hundred of history's most opinionated design minds. Paired on page spreads like guests at a dinner party-an architect of today might sit next to a contemporary or someone from the eighteenth century-these sets of quotes convey a remarkable depth and diversity of thinking. Alternately wise and amusing this elegant gem of a book makes the perfect gift for architects students and anyone curious about the ideas and personalities that have helped shape our built world.
language: English
title: The Architect Says: Quotes, Quips, and Words of Wisdom
publisher: Princeton Architectural Press