Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up. — George Lamming Copy Share Image
As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored 'Dortmunder' novels, I wrote, 'His natural ability to observe human behavior… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If you focus on design, you can call yourself a designer. If you focus on the implementation of your design, you can… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
“Even if the chance of impacting global change is slight and we don't know our chances of success, our ethical obligation is… — Graham Owen Copy Share Image
“What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone. “That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it… — Jessica Hawkins Copy Share Image
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
One of the things I think about as I've evolved as an architect is, 'Where do the poetic impulses come from?' — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. — John Rocha Copy Share Image