Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. — Nikolaus Pevsner Copy Share Image
I think my best skill as an architect is the achievement of hand-to-eye coordination. I am able to transfer a sketch into… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them, not make them worse. — Ralph Erskine Copy Share Image
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I think the structure of everything I do is probably always going to come from country music. — CMAT Copy Share Image
You can put down a bad book; you can avoid listening to bad music; but you cannot miss the ugly tower block… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing. — Carlo Scarpa Copy Share Image
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The skyscraper and the twentieth century are synonymous; the tall building is the landmark of our age. ... Shaper of cities and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“AND SO THE STORY ENDS, bracketed by two architects: Daedalus, who built the Minoan labyrinth, and Ventris, who found the thread that… — Margalit Fox Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in the architecture of war, as can be seen in Bunker Archeology. However, at the time that… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
“A software architecture is defined by a configuration of architectural elements--components, connectors, and data--constrained in their relationships in order to achieve a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Montreal's a unique city, very fascinating stories of architecture and history, and it's this sort of bizarre mixture of Europe and North… — Chris Demetral Copy Share Image
The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you:… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a… — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects.… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Working with Joe [Kosinski], definitely. I loved working with Joe. For a guy who doesn't really come from the fiction world -… — James Frain Copy Share Image
It is hard not to be inspired when you're living in New York. It doesn't matter what you do. I think that… — Diego Klattenhoff Copy Share Image
“Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I think architects are often at their best when faced with restraints. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It is new design by architects versus world revolution by political leadership. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image