Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place." — Peter Block Copy Share Image
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online,… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there,… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter,… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
“the only prospect which is really desirable or delightful, is that from the window of the breakfast-room [...] where we meet the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town… — Giambattista Valli Copy Share Image
The human face is the most deeply ingrained image in our brains. It is the two dots and a dash we connect… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness,… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress -… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context. — Vittorio Gregotti Copy Share Image
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
“We’re too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.” — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export… — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion. — Marcel Breuer Copy Share Image
The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
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