I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.” — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
“A configuration is the structure of architectural relationships among components, connectors, and data during a period of system run-time.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.” — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Any structure must have a strong foundation. The cornerstones anchor the foundation. For some reason the cornerstones that I chose to begin… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
What is commonly overlooked in using the computer is the fact that the central goal of design is still to obviate failure,… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“Modern architects and engineers are still trying to understand how the ancient Greeks were able to build the Parthenon in ten years… — Christopher Dunn Copy Share Image
What I find in a creative company is while there is a desire to build a management foundation that can feel clear… — Christopher Meledandri Copy Share Image
“Our civilization is characterised by the word 'progress'. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“It may well be that what we have hitherto understood as architecture, and what we are beginning to understand of technology, are… — Rener Banham Copy Share Image
“But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Psychotherapy makes every problem a subjective, inner problem. And that's not where the problems come from. They come from the environment, the… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
Itjtawy was ancient Egypt's capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand… — Sarah Parcak Copy Share Image
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to… — Greg Lynn Copy Share Image
Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability… — Mark Wigley Copy Share Image
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces,… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
If architects weren't arrogant, they wouldn't be architects. I don't know a modest good architect. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
