The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
Everyone is aware that most of the built environment today lacks a natural order, an order which presents itself very strongly in… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Technology should be used to create unforgettable experiences that enhance our natural and built environments, transforming them in newly meaningful ways. — David Rockwell Copy Share Image
The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help… — James T. Hubbell Copy Share Image
“The grand purpose of the classically built environment, ultimately, is to propel us out of our finite selves and into the limitlessness… — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
I'm eternally optimistic about the future. I believe that if we are committed towards it and if we continue to educate people… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
In most ecological systems you have a composite, biotic components as well as abiotic components acting together to form a whole, whereas… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
We're moving from a generation who gave little thought as to the built environment and accepted housing that was neither pleasant to… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
Humans are not disabled. A person can never be broken. Our built environment, our technologies, are broken and disabled. We the people… — Hugh Herr Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a… — Charles Gwathmey Copy Share Image
In nature the only source of energy is from the sun. So in ecological systems everything comes from the sun through the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
If you look into the way that materials are used in an ecological system you'll notice that you'll find that there is… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Our goal is to turn solar electric technologies into a commodity business like computer chips, and make them ubiquitous in the built… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
The ecologist has a much more comprehensive and holistic view of the world. We're looking at the natural environment as well as… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation.… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
