The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
“Norns are incredible architects. They simply use death as a building block.” Andacellus, Viddion marah.” — Taylor Grace Copy Share Image
When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
Artists dismiss me as an architect, so I'm not in their box, and architects dismiss me as an artist, so I'm not… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I never know if I'm the builder or architect. The role shifts all the time. But what I have come to conclude… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my… — Roopa Ganguly Copy Share Image
The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture,… — Gates McFadden Copy Share Image
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“First a small team writes a small system. Then they find the natural fracture lines and divide the system into relatively independent… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
“I heard a story once in the Orient about two architects who went to see the Buddha. They had run out of… — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image
Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I love walking along Leith's waterfront and wandering around some of New Town's beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion. — Douglas Crockford Copy Share Image
Architecture begins to matter when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads. — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Architects and engineers are among the most fortunate of men since they build their own monuments with public consent, public approval and… — John Prebble Copy Share Image
I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema. — Kalyani Priyadarshan Copy Share Image
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. — Catherine Deneuve Copy Share Image
Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I think architectural appreciation would be a minor occupation after a nuclear war. People would just be happy to have something to… — Ben Katchor Copy Share Image
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
“The structure crouched like a great stone tiger on a slope of the East Bay, resting on the cliffside with calm grace.” — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“Specifically, artists and the powerful have the ability to turn ordinary lives into dreams.” — Psixomaxaristw Copy Share Image
The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I think architects design outside in. Or they design basically outside. They don't get in the building anymore. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
