I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Boston is home to the world's most innovative thinkers - in science and technology, and in business, art, and architecture. — Marty Walsh Copy Share Image
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time. — Bertrand Delanoe Copy Share Image
A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I had to decide if I wanted to race full time or be an architect. I decided I could always go back… — Kevin Harvick Copy Share Image
In some bigger cities, I don't think people really realize these structures were built for the Olympics. — Gary Hustwit Copy Share Image
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes… — Christopher Wren Copy Share Image
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock &… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
“You’re standing in the middle of a blank piece of paper. Unleash your inner architect and design your path to success. Get… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to… — Charles Jencks 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
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water… — Eustace Conway Copy Share Image
“It was a delicate task, too, for the danger was twofold: on the one hand not to restore would mean losing precious… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
“But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
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
“Like architects, researchers build models to represent the real world.” — Dahlia K. Remler Copy Share Image
It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I like structure, and I like discipline and people doing the right thing. — Mark Henry Copy Share Image
