Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I have had built, from my designs, over 40,000 living units, and that's more than any other architect that I know of. — William Krisel Copy Share Image
I'd so much rather have exciting architecture that causes one to stop, breathe, and reflect on the potential of the human mind,… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
As an architect, I learned to think and express myself on flat forms, on paper, and to imagine the contour of the… — Gianfranco Ferre Copy Share Image
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to… — Barbara Hulanicki Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture,… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
A design career is a process of learning better and better what you know instinctively. — Mario Bellini Copy Share Image
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses.… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry,… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems… — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
My preference for clear structures is the result of my desire - perhaps illusory - to keep track of things and maintain… — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
Speaking as a parent, I don't think parents think all the time about structures. I know from conversations I've had with other… — Nicky Morgan Copy Share Image
I recently wrote a piece on comics in architecture - I was talking about the three kinds of comics I pay attention… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly;… — Nathaniel Kahn Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
