If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. — Nikolaus Pevsner Copy Share Image
The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
May every man is not the architect of his own fortune; but every man is the architect of his own character. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Parks, plazas, gardens, and rooftops are culture-producing places, not merely place for retreat. Sidewalks and bridges become ends in themselves instead of… — Sally A. Kitt Chappell Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people… — James Polshek Copy Share Image
Twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Walland the lifting of the iron curtain, troublespots abound: the Middle East and parts… — Frank-Walter Steinmeier Copy Share Image
Dealing with architecture brings me very close to the state of mind required to make pictures. One also needs an old seeing… — Max Dupain Copy Share Image
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own…style. Conversely, to put very fine… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
“[...] you shouldn't be uneasy about any parts of the architecture. It shouldn't contain anything just to please the boss. It shouldn't… — Steve McConnell 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
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality… — Martin Filler 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
“IT historically goes for perfection. Many times there is the thinking that unless every business requirement, function or feature is implemented the… — Randy A. Steinberg Copy Share Image
The original AMD GCN architecture allowed for one source of graphics commands, and two sources of compute commands. For PS4, we've worked… — Mark Cerny Copy Share Image
Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone. “That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it… — Jessica Hawkins Copy Share Image