The structures in Europe in a globalising economy need to be modernised, need to be more integrated, need to be stronger. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train. — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
The designers [of the 1930s] were populists, you see; they were trying to give the public what it wanted. What the public… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I've always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama. — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
Structure is nothing if it is all you got. Skeletons spook people if they try to walk around on their own. I… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that. — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
Paris is different from LA in regards to its historical architecture. I think that's what gives Paris it's charm and beauty. — Kenya Kinski-Jones Copy Share Image
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on 'DmC Devil May Cry,' and I kind of fell in love with… — Hideaki Itsuno Copy Share Image
Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the 'application layer' of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform… — Kenneth Frampton Copy Share Image
If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered,… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
“There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it. Sometimes I can almost feel a particular door handle in… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“Conceptual integrity does require that a system reflect a single philosophy and that the specification as seen by the user flow from… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
I believe that the idea of the totality, the finality of the master-plan, is misguided. One should advocate a gradual transformation of… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
In all proper relationships there is no sacrifice of anyone to anyone. An architect needs clients, but he does not subordinate his… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
I didn't realize Toronto was so beautiful. Everywhere you go you see beautiful architecture. — Kevin Costner Copy Share Image
Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.. — John Pawson Copy Share Image
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
“I love that your house plans for you to get muddy. Like it's in the architecture.” — Rainbow Rowell 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
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be… — Sandra Bullock 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
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?' — Antoine Predock 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
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
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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