Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. — Caroline Wozniacki Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“A configuration is the structure of architectural relationships among components, connectors, and data during a period of system run-time.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
We've been fighting from the beginning for organic architecture. That is, architecture where the whole is to the part as the part… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The sense of space within the reality of any building is a new concept wherever architecture is concerned. But it is essential… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets… — Philip Pearlstein Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“the only prospect which is really desirable or delightful, is that from the window of the breakfast-room [...] where we meet the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town… — Giambattista Valli Copy Share Image
The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress -… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it. Sometimes I can almost feel a particular door handle in… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof Copy Share Image
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
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