In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances…

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin…

— Mario Botta

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already faced in…

— Mario Botta

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built

— Daniel Libeskind

As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,…

— Ray Bradbury

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

— Martin Filler

A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known…

— Ward Cunningham

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place.

— G-Eazy

The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality.

— Jean Piaget

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

— Curtis W. Fentress

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like…

— Richard Meier

I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,…

— Jami Attenberg

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and…

— Jay Griffiths

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens…

— Pablo Picasso

A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.…

— Paul Simon

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