An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe.… — RZA Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts.… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I grew up in Rome, in actually what I would say was a liberal, open-minded family. My father was an architect and… — Frida Giannini Copy Share Image
You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture,… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
I was definitely looking for a reason to impose rules in the story during the writing process... a set of reasons that… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
The book recounts stories from my half-century of experience in the world of architecture and my journey of discovery of the importance… — Sim Van der Ryn Copy Share Image
For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I liked the idea of architectural games - you're always building and rebuilding. And I still thought of myself in opposition. I… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
A wise architect observed that you could break the laws of architec75tural art provided you had mastered them first. That would apply… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
The spy boom has been a beautiful windfall for architects, construction companies, IT specialists, and above all defense contractors, enriching thousands of… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Studing jewelry gives you an incredible technical background. If you can work on very, very small things, then, I think, typically you… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
L.A. is so much about ratings and box office; that defines everything. And here, of course it's important, but it's not part… — Dylan Walsh Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I really wanted to, but I just didn't understand how people became comedians. I kind of thought it was something you were… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
We should bear the intelligence and taste of the architect or the gardener in how we shape the becoming of our self.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I think [Nikola Tesla] was always like that. And so it was inevitable that he would be an inventor. Because it was… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
The Berlin of the '20s formed the foundation of my future education... the Berlin of the UFA studios, of Fritz Lang, Lubitsch… — Ken Adam Copy Share Image
We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Architects in planning rooms today have forgotten their faith in natural light. Depending on the touch of a finger to a switch,… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
If there is no idea in the drawing, there is no idea in the constructed project. That's the expression of the idea.… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things -… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
I will never tire of recommending the custom, practiced by the best architects, of preparing not only drawings and sketches, but also… — Leon Battista Alberti Copy Share Image
When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Cities must urge urban planners and architects to reinforce pedestrianism as an integrated city policy to develop lively, safe, sustainable and healthy… — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image