“The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.” — Lee Battersby Copy Share Image
We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus Copy Share Image
Everyone used to want to be star architects. That's no longer the case. — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
People ask me if I'm an artist or an architect. But I think they're the same. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I'm… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
With the beginning of any record for an artist there's a certain amount of time of finding the blueprint and trying to… — Dr. Luke Copy Share Image
Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
François Mitterrand was a student of architecture, he had done a lot of research before he called me. He said, "You did… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior… — James Laver Copy Share Image
“What then is this thing called Design if it is neither style nor applied art? It is planning: the planning as objectively… — Bruno Munari Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins']… — Jeffrey Loria Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image