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
“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
The creativity and adaptability of life expresses itself through the spontaneous emergence of novelty at critical points of instability. Every human organization… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
“Nothing man made was perfect. A partnership wasn't about being beautiful and adored...it was about incorporating the mistakes into the architecture and… — Suanne Laqueur Copy Share Image
“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us… — Michael Tilson Thomas Copy Share Image
Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an… — Travis Kalanick Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine 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
Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building… — Frank Lloyd Wright 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
“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
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
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
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
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
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through… — Francoise Mouly Copy Share Image
Actors become actors because they loved entertaining their family by putting on the lampshade and dancing around as a kid, ... That's… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
The strategic agreement with Rockchip is an example of Intel’s commitment to take pragmatic and different approaches to grow our presence in… — Brian Krzanich Copy Share Image
Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I… — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
It is not possible to design always the same. How to be different in each different place - that is the most… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts.… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
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