“I shouldn’t need to explain why building something without any structure is a bad idea.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and… — Denise Scott Brown Copy Share Image
If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
“Generally, the modeler should look for natural boundaries of the system to capture the most important and impactful structure.” — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their… — Hugh Ferriss Copy Share Image
Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and… — Peter York Copy Share Image
There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
It is better to have a plain, substantial building, with no extravagance about it, but without a debt, than to have the… — William Mackergo Taylor Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
