The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is an applied art, founded not on theories but on practice. — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of you. You are the architect of your future. Design it however you desire. — Danielle Maylyn Copy Share Image
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“This wasn't just a band of frustrated Egyptian architects in Hamburg. It was much bigger than that,. and had nothing to do… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city… — Ma Yansong 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
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
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
I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
“Why did you decide to be an architect?" "I didn't know it then. But it's because I've never believed in God." "Come… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Architecture is a ride - a physical ride and an intellectual ride. — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by Indian history and architecture. — Shriya Pilgaonkar Copy Share Image
