My Favorite Material Is Light & Other Quotes by Architects

Architects see the built world not only for what it is, but for what it could be. This jam-packed tome created for armchair enthusiasts, students, and professionals alike shares their invaluable perspective.

With more than 500 quotes from architects throughout history, and around the world, this collection is a go-to resource for life lessons, revelations, and frank opinions that can offer guidance to us all.

Featuring insight, inspiration, and motivation from some of the world s most celebrated visionaries, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Zaha Hadid, Le Corbusier, and Frank Gehry, the book is organised into chapters on topics from Client, Confessions, and Downtime, to Ego, Gender, and Sustainability. The wise words in this book have been newly discovered in monographs, letters, notebooks, interviews, essays and more especially for this collection, with the original source for each quotation included, allowing them to also be read in wider context.

Graphically, this small but mighty book is a visual feast, designed to sit in pride of place on desktops and coffee tables. Voices are presented in an array of bold typefaces, lending the pages a dynamic spirit. This unique and thoughtfully curated book is at once an exquisite keepsake and useful resource, made to dip into time and time again.