The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
This is a look, a part of Australia we don't see. The wide streets, the architecture, the embassies, the space. It's really… — Ashley Zukerman Copy Share Image
When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture,… — James Henry Breasted Copy Share Image
Frank Gehry designs buildings that make other architects half his age (he's 78) gasp with envy. Neotony is what makes him lace… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“The house looked on to other tenement-like structures, experiments in architectural insignificance, that intruded upon a central concentration of buildings, commanding and… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance… — Sim Van der Ryn Copy Share Image
“It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard… — Marina Fiorato Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
My mom is an architect by trade, but I think she's mostly a creative spirit. She's always making something, whether it's furniture… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry Copy Share Image
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. — James Polshek Copy Share Image
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image