“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
My trade and my art is living. He who forbids me to speak about it according to my sense, experience, and practice,… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
“Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to… — David Kim Copy Share Image
Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
“Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of… — Sarah Vowell 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
“superstitions, our worries and our wars; they will gawk at our cruelty. They will study our art and argue over our history.… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power,” Ban said recently. “Power and money are invisible, so people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with… — Lebbeus Woods 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
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
“When he first saw the little room with the glass balcony, Mr. Liechtenstein immediately thought of the archaic aristocratic English garden concept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
“At that time, for the thought written in stone, there existed a privilege perfectly comparable to our present liberty of the press.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
