“But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Nature has provided us a spectacular toolbox. The toolbox exists. An architect far better and smarter than us has given us that… — Barry Schuler Copy Share Image
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of:… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those. — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“A configuration is the structure of architectural relationships among components, connectors, and data during a period of system run-time.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on 'DmC Devil May Cry,' and I kind of fell in love with… — Hideaki Itsuno Copy Share Image
I like it when people are driven. I love that in any field of work, in architecture or whatever. Like Lorne Michaels… — Fred Armisen Copy Share Image
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
The task of the architect is to encompass everything about the site, starting from the concrete conditions and the sensory impressions created… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
