A box is more a coffin for the human spirit than an inspiration. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
If you weren’t an optimist, it would be impossible to be an architect. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Chicago is a beautiful city - the architecture, the food, everything in the city is awesome. — Chance the Rapper Copy Share Image
Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. — James Polshek Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture not only requires participation in the profession but it also requires civic engagement. — Samuel Copy Share Image
I always had a sense of liking diagrams, from the time I was studying architecture. Architecture is built diagrams, basically. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“British philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to… — C. J. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens.… — Limahl Copy Share Image
I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
It's my observation that gardeners and gardening for a very long time have had to take a back seat. Architects are very… — Robert Irwin Copy Share Image
“Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years.… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“Organizing one’s system around the A5 Active Knower is an essential feature of the Kantian Paradigm: the examination of anything else, including… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
“One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“While for critics of sprawl the generic signifies a loss of local identity and connection to place, for Koolhaas it represents an… — Graham Owen Copy Share Image