“architecture is open sources beyond the direct control of the architect.” — Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye. — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this… — John Pawson Copy Share Image
The relative majesty of buildings depends more on the weight and vigour of their masses than any other tribute of their design. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture. — Trevor Paglen Copy Share Image
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. — James Polshek Copy Share Image
“A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.” — Winifred Gallagher Copy Share Image
“The better the story, the more engaged your users will be. Structure is how story engages the human brain” — Donna Lichaw Copy Share Image
Let us not say, every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, every man is the architect… — George D Boardman Copy Share Image
“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface,… — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Wherefore the mere practical architect is not able to assign sufficient reasons for the forms he adopts; and the theoretic architect also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As for your high towers and monuments, there was a crazy fellow once in this town who undertook to dig through to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It's a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“Even a brick wants to be something. A brick wants to be something. It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“First a small team writes a small system. Then they find the natural fracture lines and divide the system into relatively independent… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study… — John Adams Copy Share Image
“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
