The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's…

— Santiago Calatrava

“Nothing is easier than yesterday's solutions.”

— Roger Sperry

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

— Louis Kahn

Batley and Spen has a high proportion of people working in manufacturing, and we can boast the full range of industries, including high-skilled, precision…

— Jo Cox

I design some of my own clothes now.

— Kiernan Shipka

Design is a very personal thing. It's like art. Your personal choice plays a big role.

— Gauri Khan

Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He…

— Peter Shaffer

Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life,…

— Walter Gropius

Design certainly has a cosmetic, aesthetic aim. It always aims at making things beautiful. But relevance is just as important. I often say, 'If…

— Yves Behar

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.

— Roger Spottiswoode

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

— Curtis W. Fentress

My objective is to design a space that nobody else can come up with while using the material that anyone can use.

— Tadao Ando

Man's endeavour to cross even the most difficult terrain with railway lines has produced some of the most stunning marvels of engineering of the…

— Prashant Bhushan

Of course design is about problem solving, but I cannot resist adding something personal.

— Wim Crouwel