The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to create order out of the desperate confusion… — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe 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
The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Life is not about maximizing everything, it's about giving something back - like light, space, form, serenity, joy. You have to give… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Architects and painters know precisely what they are about as long as they deal with material phenomena.... But when they come to… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“In my previous murals, I had tried to achieve a harmony in my painting with the architecture of the building. But to… — Diego Rivera Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry 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
“Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known—that is—that everything is… — John Harwood Copy Share Image
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable… — John Zachman Copy Share Image
“We must change life,' the poet [Rimbaud] had written, and so the Situationists set out to transform everyday life in the modern… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
I thought of the structure as musical. The first piece, for instance, contains the names/subject matter of every person to come in… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
