Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people. — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and… — Denise Scott Brown Copy Share Image
We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
You should know our mania for building is stronger than ever. It is a diabolical thing. It consumes money and the more… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
I really wanted to go to architecture school but the demands of playing D-1 Collegiate soccer just take over so I tried… — Steve Purdy Copy Share Image
Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Eliot Noyes Copy Share Image
Sometimes , Love just seems so hard to express itself.. Only yourself, through your soul do you know how it feels like.… — Hao Ming Copy Share Image
The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing… — Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual,… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person. — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
“The only way to enjoy architecture is not just to look at it but to move around it and through it.” — Kenneth Bayes Copy Share Image
A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. — Daniel Burnham Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
