I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.” — Graham Owen Copy Share Image
The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that's very pop. I don't… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I think of architecture as language, and I look within the intra-communication between architects. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That's the cool part about skateboarding. We're out there skating stuff… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
I love the idea of engaging the object, whether it be architecture or a piece of good graphic design, or a good… — Michael C. McMillen Copy Share Image
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale. — Andrew Shaffer Copy Share Image
There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking. — Bill Henson Copy Share Image
I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and… — Catherine Stock Copy Share Image
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. — Saul Steinberg Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
