I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Architects are not clients. We can't build without something to built. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
The structure of the family is not born in nature but in human design. What we can do, we can also undo. — Lillian B. Rubin Copy Share Image
The Alessi relationship and the Target one has broadened the role of architects in society and broadened the concept that design belongs… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
“It is a building designed by committee: all they have been able to agree on is that it should be rectangular, have… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose. — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
The novel should be understood as a structure built to accommodate the greatest possible amount of cool stuff. — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal... — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. It's not fluff. You have to do… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
“The grand temples of Greece were built either of stone or of marble. As a general rule they are set on a… — Nancy R E Meugens Bell Copy Share Image