In memory of Grumpy Cat, who went to kitty heaven earlier this year, here’s a compilation of quotes that prove architects are basically Grumpy Cat.

98% of what gets built today is sh**. – Frank Gehry
“98% of what gets built today is sh**. There’s no sense of design nor respect for humanity or anything. They’re bad buildings and that’s it.” – Frank Gehry.
Fun fact: One of Frank Gehry’s most famous works as an architect is his own private Santa Monica residence.

Less is only more where more is no good. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Fun fact: Wright was extremely prolific: he designed over 1,000 different structures and completed 532 of them.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies. – Le Corbusier
Fun fact: Le Corbusier also designed furniture, leading to this delightful quote: ”Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.”

If You Want an Easy Life, Don’t Be an Architect. – Zaha Hadid
Fun fact: Hadid was the first woman to win the Pritzker Architecture Prize and designed the Guangzhou Opera House and Broad Art Musuem in Los Angeles.

I don’t want to be interesting. I want to be good. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Fun fact: A man of five names, he went by “Mies.”

My buildings are more famous than me. – Jean Nouvel
Fun fact: He is correct. #goals

Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. – Luis Barragan
Fun fact: All of Barragan’s completed projects are located in his native Mexico. Serenity. Now.

Fight against the ugliness. – Massimo Vignelli
Fun fact: Vignelli designed the famed New York City Subway map.

Build! Don’t talk. – Ludwig Mies ven der Rohe
Fun fact: Mies was really good at pithy quotes.

I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. – Frank Gehry
Fun fact: Frank Gehry is 90 years old and still lives in Santa Monica in the famous house that he built, where he presently does not give a shingle about your feelings. Carry on good sir. Carry on.
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