The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity. — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
Art is about people. I think the discussion about whether architecture is art or not is lamebrain. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere. — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“We don’t yet know the names of the architects who will build the next upgrade to the secret-killing machine. But we’ll know… — Andy Greenberg Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“I realise it’s not important who owns the physical structure or where it’s located, it’s the person you love – the bond… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to… — David Rees Copy Share Image
“I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details” — Soumeet Lanka Copy Share Image
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess… — Carol Ross Barney 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
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
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
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
[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