The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.” — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion. — Marcel Breuer Copy Share Image
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
One begins to think with that new building block, rather than with littler pieces. And finally, the things which seem like elements… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
“The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and… — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
Wright's building made it socially and culturally acceptable for an architect to design a highly expressive, intensely personal museum. In this sense… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I love light in my work but I was never influenced by neon signage in itself, rather its effect on nature and… — Keith Sonnier Copy Share Image
Photography is inherently an analytic discipline. Where a painter starts with a blank canvas and builds a picture, a photographer starts with… — Stephen Shore Copy Share Image
“the architecture student from number eleven presses his face to the glass and looks at the way the light falls through the… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
It was very definitely architectural. I was using the words on the page as some kind of equivalent of a physical model.… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“If there are n workers on a project, there are (n2–n)/2 interfaces across which there may be communication, and there are potentially… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus Copy Share Image
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
