Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
I remember, as a young architect, people always talked about I. M. Pei's concrete. He had a particular specification no one else… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
The role of architecture, in terms of communication, is not going to drastically change either. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This… — Donald Bren Copy Share Image
The most natural beauty in the world is honest and moral truth.for all beauty is truth. true features make the beauty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I try to just put a blank stage in front of them, and say, "This is your space; you tell me where… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
All the same, the fundamental truths which govern that art are still unchangeable; just as the principles of mechanics must always govern… — Ferdinand Foch Copy Share Image
As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged… — Shane Carruth Copy Share Image
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their… — Joshua Landis Copy Share Image
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“As architect of your reality, you have the power to create it as you choose.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image