“architecture is open sources beyond the direct control of the architect.” — Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture. — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. — John Updike Copy Share Image
To me, the building [of Museum of Arts and Design]now looks like a lovely jewel box, and the tiled façade reminds me… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses. — Daryl Hall Copy Share Image
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
When you feel the architecture just click, as though it couldn't have been anything else, it's due to a true understanding of… — Stephen Kanner Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Just because you are an architect and make decent buildings does not mean that you can suddenly become a set designer for… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The rest of America, with some small exceptions, has been bulldozed and rebuilt and then bulldozed and rebuilt again. Our places have… — David Simon Copy Share Image
Architects and urbanists are fascinated with cities that are shrinking, like the Rust Belt cities. Or, alternatively, we are fascinated with the… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order… — D. B. Weiss Copy Share Image
In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for… — Magnus Larsson 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
I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how… — Adriana Trigiani Copy Share Image
“When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power, Power and money are invisible, so people hire us to… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image