Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always think of buildings in their settings, but so do other architects. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
There are but two truths in the world - the Bible and Greek architecture. — Nicholas Biddle Copy Share Image
In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change -… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've wanted to design golf courses ever since I was a kid. I suppose it comes from the way I've played the… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
When a building is so complete within itself, I always think, "Why do I even have to go inside it?" I would… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate,… — Andrew Luck Copy Share Image
“Thus the continuation of the master tutor and willing servant students, the privileging of the visual, the inculcation of absurd modes of… — Nishat Awan Copy Share Image
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
“The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, looked like something out of an alien hallucination—a swirling collage of warped metallic forms that appeared… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
In some conditions, the architecture of textile is more relevant than in other conditions or the opacity of the material form. Pattern… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t need to explain why building something without any structure is a bad idea.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
