Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the… — George Will Copy Share Image
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and only when, they are created by everybody. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of architectural games - you're always building and rebuilding. And I still thought of myself in opposition. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance… — Sim Van der Ryn Copy Share Image
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“I do not think that when in a hotel you have to feel “at home”, on the contrary, you have to get… — Aurelio Vazquez Duran Copy Share Image
If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would… — Pietro Belluschi Copy Share Image
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and… — John Prebble Copy Share Image
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the… — Gianfranco Ferre Copy Share Image
What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I was the chairman of the Budget Committee and the lead architect the last time it happened in Washington, and when we… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
The good building is not one that hurts the landscape, but one which makes the landscape more beautiful than it was before… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
You Republicans are the arsonists who burned down our national home. Now you have the nerve to criticize the 'architect' America just… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general. — Arizona Muse Copy Share Image
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image