If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. — Richard Nickel Copy Share Image
You must have a good structure, and not just change things based on pressure and need for a result. — Tite Copy Share Image
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic. — Hugh Hardy Copy Share Image
For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence. — Will Self Copy Share Image
If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its… — Timothy Levitch Copy Share Image
The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things. — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
I was researching amazing spaces across the world and one project blew my mind - the glass igloos of Finland. There are… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I would have, then, our ordinary dwelling-houses built to last, and built to be lovely; as rich and full of pleasantness as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Inspiration is around you. Like, when I travel any country, be it Paris or London, while walking on the streets, the architecture,… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors… — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine,… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical… — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it's similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch.… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Architectural education is notably under-theorised as an underlying discipline, though is clearly intensely theorised as a set of surface actions. It has… — Tatjiana Schneider Nishat Awan Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
“Le Corbusier’s unrendered concrete towers, after 27 years of Punjab sun and monsoon and sub-Himalayan winter, looked stained and diseased, and showed… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“alongside our wish to be free of rules, we all search for structure.” — Jordan B. Peterson Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
