The structure serves the people, people don't serve the structure — William Anthony Donohue Copy Share Image
May every man is not the architect of his own fortune; but every man is the architect of his own character. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty. — Kenya Kinski-Jones Copy Share Image
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I'm not so sure for very long.… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Space, space: architects always talk about space! But creating a space is not automatically doing architecture. With the same space, you can… — Jean Nouvel 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 Taj stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was in school for architecture and when you're in school for a creative discipline, so much of what you produce comes… — Evan Sharp Copy Share Image
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are… — Vince Vaughn Copy Share Image
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
“I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my… — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
“structure has been defined as ‘any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads’, and the study of structures is one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
“A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who… — Ashfaq Ishaq Copy Share Image
Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
No weapon fashioned against me will suit me, cuz am the architect of my life. — Blaze Olamiday Copy Share Image
The pyramids of Egypt will not last a moment compared to the daisy. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan. — Giorgetto Giugiaro Copy Share Image
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