When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been… — Jan Morris 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
I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form. — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices,… — Enid Nemy Copy Share Image
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
“On August 19, 1418, a competition was announced in Florence, where the city's magnificent new cathedral, Santa Maria del Fiore, had been… — Ross King 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
“If there are n workers on a project, there are (n2–n)/2 interfaces across which there may be communication, and there are potentially… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I… — Olivier Zahm Copy Share Image
Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator. — Anonymous 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
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here in Barcelona, it's the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration -… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
