I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
For an architect's son, I am remarkably unformed in my architectural tastes. — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I make myself a relentless architect of the possibilities of human beings. — Benjamin Zander Copy Share Image
Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean. — Ted Dexter Copy Share Image
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces,… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to… — Greg Lynn Copy Share Image
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
I would like to see every gay doctor come out, every gay lawyer, every gay architect come out, stand up and let… — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
I am obsessed with architecture. It is true, I am restless, trying to find myself as an architect and how best to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it.… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The vocation, whether it be that of the farmer or the architect, is a function; the exercise of this function as regards… — Ananda Coomaraswamy Copy Share Image
When you see a culture where the intellectual architects of the invasion are not shamed for their behavior but rewarded within the… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
If we could sufficiently understand the order of the universe, we should find that it exceeds all the desires of the wisest… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
I don't think I would have been a good architect. Really, I have thought about this from time to time, and I… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I think that (Alister) MacKenzie and I managed to work as a completely sympathetic team. Of course there was never any question… — Bobby Jones Copy Share Image
Economy denotes the the proper management of materials and of site, as well as a thrifty balancing of cost and common sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a… — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image