My husband was a hospital architect and he was working on some hospitals in Alberta, and I told him to try to… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When I started out, nearly every architect I knew was working in public practice; that's where the radical thinking was done. But,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I have worked with some horrible idiots in my life. You learn the pattern of how architects work and the thing is… — Barbara Hulanicki Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we are not painters and authors, where we can do something in isolation. We require a lot of money to create… — Jon Favreau Copy Share Image
Mrs. Nixon and I share the sorrow of millions of Americans at the death of Louis Armstrong. One of the architects of… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
We have an architect in the audience who designed one of clubhouses at one of the golf courses. It's a beautiful facility.… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Birds in flight, claims the architect Vincenzo Volentieri, are not between places - they carry their places with them. We never wonder… — Geoff Dyer Copy Share Image
The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for… — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
I came to America to become an architect. And somewhere along the line while I was still in school, I was lured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought… — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
Don’t worry about being able to identify each of these plants (in your designs for clients). The world is full of botanists… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers,… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
When I was a carpenter, I once worked with this Russian lady architect. I would tell her, ‘Look, I’m terribly sorry, but… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
The most important thing we can tell young people is not to be an imitation of somebody else. That their life is… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
May it be my privilege to have the happiness of establishing the commonwealth on a firm and stable basis and thus enjoy… — Augustus Copy Share Image
There are two great classes of men: the people and the scholars, the men of science. For the former, nothing exists but… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
I'm just fascinated by houses. In another life, I'd have probably trained as an architect. If I had enough money, I'd collect… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
My parents were both writers - they would type their manuscripts sitting side by side on the veranda of our house near… — Deborah Moggach Copy Share Image
I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an… — Christopher Durang Copy Share Image
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
