As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
In the United States there has been a kind of a structure in the Modern art world. The New York School was… — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think… — James Polshek Copy Share Image
“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos. — Tom Kenyon Copy Share Image
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
It might be David Adjaye talking about how the structure of jazz music informs his architecture, it might be the musician Terry… — Doug Aitken Copy Share Image
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
When the basic structure of society is publicly known to satisfy its principles for an extended period of time, those subject to… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
There will be no new architecture for computing for the next 1,000 years. — Larry Ellison Copy Share Image
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The architect of the walls around me is the fear within me. And if I have foolishly granted this architect full license… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
