Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.” — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect… — George D Boardman Copy Share Image
“The better the story, the more engaged your users will be. Structure is how story engages the human brain” — Donna Lichaw Copy Share Image
We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons. — Jeff Fortenberry Copy Share Image
I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don't have to understand it. You may not… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I make no apology for preoccupying myself with architecture, television, conceptual art, restaurants and Jane Asher's cakes. — Will Self Copy Share Image
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
“The primary contention is that man consists of body, soul and spirit and that each of these needs to be acknowledged and… — Kenneth Bayes Copy Share Image
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act… — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
“Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
I think it modern society as a whole, but definitively in Brazil, spaces are so well divided and there are so many… — Kleber Mendonca Filho Copy Share Image
Today's enterprise IT architecture is about integrating systems to meet business needs. Consequently, IT architects can't - and don't - live in… — Jamie Lewis Copy Share Image
“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
Sculpture, for me, provides that environmental discipline where you actually move in and around it. And if you have a good collaboration… — Keith Sonnier Copy Share Image
I always want to encourage young artists. As the budgets get smaller, that might provide an opening for younger artists and more… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Hell is out of fashion - institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of the 20th century are more private affairs,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
You’ll join me sooner than you know in a place with . . . no illusions, where the truth is the only… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“When put into print, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, intangible, indestructible; it mingles with the air. In the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake. — Ronda Rousey Copy Share Image
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that are built. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I'm really into architecture, I'm a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I'm a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters… — Roisin Murphy Copy Share Image
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. — James Polshek Copy Share Image
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
“A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I was also always interested in the aesthetic realm - architecture and that kind of stuff - but music was my first… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
“...architects (should) involve themselves continuously in anticipatory design as recommended by Buckminster Fuller” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more airy and beautiful than the transparent seed-globe-a fairy dome of splendid architecture. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I believe [the architecture firm] Herzog and de Meuron and our collaboration made the product the best it could be. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I'm definitely not good at architecture or design, but I feel like I have people in my life who give me helpful… — Rachel Sennott Copy Share Image
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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