The world needs a new global architecture, additional layers of governance, to deal with issues that neither nations nor traditional forms of… — Amitai Etzioni Copy Share Image
We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“… that architecture’s dependency, far from being its weakness, becomes its opportunity, with the architect acting as open-minded listener and feet-footed interpreter,… — Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent.… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There's a… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
There are many, many things in my work that need redoing - never the structure. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. — Hermann Hankel Copy Share Image
The architect who really designs for a human being has to know a great deal more than just the Five Canons of… — Richard Neutra Copy Share Image
“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
In writing 'The Humans,' I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture. — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man’s life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
I love when architects build a golf course that compliments the landscape rather than intrudes upon it. — Michael Waltrip Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture. — Nikolaus Pevsner Copy Share Image