The architecture of war and violence is now matched by a barrage of goods parading as fashion. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to be a vet; I wanted to be an architect. I was and still am such a… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk Copy Share Image
I've said goodbye to the overworked notion that architecture has to save the world. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
“The facility occupied the ground floor of a gray commercial building hemmed in by rusting fire escapes and choked with high-tension wires… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of… — Leslie Weisman Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“Page 158: 'Architecture is team work,' said Sinan. 'Apprenticeship is not.' 'Why don't you want us to look at each other's drawings?… — Elif Şafak Copy Share Image
When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures… — David Trubridge Copy Share Image
In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
“He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
“Why did you decide to be an architect?” “I didn’t know it then. But it’s because I’ve never believed in God.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
