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 thathave helped shape our built world.

An affordable, smart, portable collection of architecture related quotations; First well designed book that focuses solely on quotations about architects and architecture; Quotations will play off each other in each spread. Set up like a spirited dinner party, where an architect from the eighteenth century is sitting next to one practicing today, arguing, complimenting, disagreeing with each other, with critics present as well, adding their own two cents to the mix; Will include 30% 40% quotations from contemporary leading architects; Interesting typographic treatment (each quote will be matched with a different typeface that communicates something about the style/personality of the quoted individual); roughly 150 quotations in the collection, one quote per page; Potential for ancillary gift products.

Book Information
ISBN 9781616890933
Author Laura Dushkes
Format Hardback
Page Count 160
Imprint Princeton Architectural Press
Publisher Princeton Architectural Press
Weight(grams) 230g
Dimensions(mm) 186mm * 132mm * 21mm