“The book as a structure is the Trojan horse of art - it is not feared by average people. It is a… — Walter Hamady Copy Share Image
I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and… — Vitruvius Copy Share Image
Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
“Mishka has his “project”; and this young architect, unable to build buildings, takes pride and pleasure from the careful drafting of hotel… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I am an architect. I try to feel the transparency in contemporary buildings and I try to understand the transparency in Zen… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture,… — Gates McFadden Copy Share Image
The building art is, in reality, always the spatial execution of spiritual decisions. It is bound to its times and manifests itself… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“I realise it’s not important who owns the physical structure or where it’s located, it’s the person you love – the bond… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
“I had the impression that her place was near mine, but even by bus it took about twenty minutes. She lived alone… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the structure of art and how it works. And the content is also interesting, but I don't want to… — David Rees Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
When I started this project, I was a young architect. I was very apprehensive about any changes to the design. Whether I… — Michael Arad Copy Share Image
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it,… — William Devane Copy Share Image
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
“The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially… — Akiko Busch Copy Share Image
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known—that is—that everything is… — John Harwood Copy Share Image
Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vision of a… — Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine Copy Share Image
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
