Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write.… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you:… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
“A software architecture is defined by a configuration of architectural elements--components, connectors, and data--constrained in their relationships in order to achieve a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everywhere in the world, when you travel, you see structures that stand out. Historic structures and new structures. But in India, I… — Ajay Piramal Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of… — Stephen Kanner Copy Share Image
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“It is usually good to provide people with lots of options, but when the question is complicated, sensible choice architecture guides people… — Richard H. Thaler Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Why did you decide to be an architect?" "I didn't know it then. But it's because I've never believed in God." "Come… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a… — Charles Gwathmey Copy Share Image
I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.” — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general. — Arizona Muse Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant. — Dacre Montgomery Copy Share Image
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
