I can't honestly say where the inspiration for my work came from. I think it came from reading. It came from texts,… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an artist, because it's a much better scam than being an architect. — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point.… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission. — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped,… — Judith Clancy Copy Share Image
When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine,… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Where do architects and designers get their ideas? The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
The architecture or look fo a line is really important to me, and often ice can add something to the look of… — Jeff Lowe Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins']… — Jeffrey Loria Copy Share Image
New York is just an energy. There's a beauty to the way it's laid out: the architecture, the way the planning is.… — El-P Copy Share Image
“When put into print, thought is more imperishable than ever; it is volatile, intangible, indestructible; it mingles with the air. In the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
You might say that when you step inside, you're entering a honorific space, but that's something totally different than experiencing it. And… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. — Alexandre de Betak Copy Share Image
“It is not, of course, only the Japanese who find flat sterile surfaces attractive and kirei. Foreign observers, too, are seduced by… — Alex Kerr Copy Share Image
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
“We’re too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.” — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason. — Ji Chang-wook Copy Share Image
He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
