The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar…

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