Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Domestic power structures are shaped in good part by global arrangements. — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Good design and talented architects can transform an ugly house on a relatively accessible and achievable budget. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor 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
No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help… — Jaejoong Copy Share Image
I'm so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked… — Oneohtrix Point Never Copy Share Image
“Ornamentation, festoons, carvings, cartouches, bas-reliefs, countless surprises among the sculptures - and the tones of the facades weathered by time and rain,… — Georges Rodenbach 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
A lot of my ideas come from McNally Jackson bookstore. One of my favorite things to do is just go there and… — St. Lucia Copy Share Image
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“One [project of Teddy Cruz's] is titled Living Rooms at the Border. it takes a piece of land with an unused church… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Organizing one’s system around the A5 Active Knower is an essential feature of the Kantian Paradigm: the examination of anything else, including… — Lee Braver Copy Share Image
In Paris style is everything. That is traditionally understood. Every street, every structure, every shopgirl has style. The style of Parisian architecture… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“While for critics of sprawl the generic signifies a loss of local identity and connection to place, for Koolhaas it represents an… — Graham Owen Copy Share Image
To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
“Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture. — James Wyatt Copy Share Image
I think in doing stand-up there are no rules and there's no architecture. — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image