Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. — James Polshek Copy Share Image
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
“Mishka has his “project”; and this young architect, unable to build buildings, takes pride and pleasure from the careful drafting of hotel… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“On every project, there are always areas that everyone wants to shy away from due to either the political environment or a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The success of the scaling-up process depends upon the fact that the conceptual integrity of each piece has been radically improved—that the… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of… — Wade Graham Copy Share Image
“A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t need to explain why building something without any structure is a bad idea.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
