Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
I think of painting as possessed by a structure... but a structure born of the flow of color feeling. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture. — Jensen Huang Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the power of you. You are the architect of your future. Design it however you desire. — Danielle Maylyn Copy Share Image
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That's the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Form follows function, as the architects say. With words and pictures, you can do just about anything. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
“Steiner's teachings begin and end with man but in between is humankind, the earth, the cosmos. Architecture is the same: it too… — Kenneth Bayes Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts… — Bill Hillier Copy Share Image
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Don't highlight the flaws in my structure if you're unwilling to repair the cracks in your very own foundation." ~Elissa Gabrielle” — Elissa Gabrielle Copy Share Image
A city grows like an organism. It is a structure of living and working together a mix of functions. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
If you don't create structure, your time will get eaten up pretty quickly. And the alternative is harsher than you think, because… — Sam Hinkie Copy Share Image
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery,… — Deborah Meaden Copy Share Image
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
We experience every space in five senses, so it's strange that architects design just for the eyes. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers.… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Everyone asks about how I'll feel about the tattoos and scars in thirty years. I always say: "I'll like them." I've always… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Copy Share Image
I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Unesco can rightly be claimed as one of Britain's greatest contributions to that global architecture of peace, and for Penny Mordaunt to… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
