Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang Copy Share Image
Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Walland the lifting of the iron curtain, troublespots abound: the Middle East and parts… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing… — Max Dupain Copy Share Image
“Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of… — Sally A. Kitt Chappell Copy Share Image
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people… — James Polshek Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Barcelona is a beautiful city. I love the buildings and the architecture and always enjoy being close to that. It makes sense… — Kim Bodnia Copy Share Image
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a… — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of… — Maggie Macnab Copy Share Image
In architecture it isn't enough to just have the right building that works well. It can also be beautiful. It can also… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I like structure - like driving: go past the school on the street, stay on the right side, no hitting the car,… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so. — Norman Potter Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was - and is - a builder in my… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image