Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof Copy Share Image
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures. — Thierry Mugler Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The Venus Project is not about new cities or new architecture. It's about a way of thinking — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I am always fascinated by the structure of things; why do things work this way and not that way. — Ursus Wehrli Copy Share Image
You can say I'm not the easiest architect in the world, because I'm always trying to push the limits, — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
The architecture in Florence is light years ahead of anywhere I've ever been in terms of beauty and design. — Evan Mock Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Doing anything in Japan as a sort of architecture - related project is just fantastic because they do everything so perfectly and… — Marc Newson Copy Share Image
Dad and Mom were frustrated artists - Dad wanted to study engineering or architecture and Mom wanted to be an actress -… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
“The [commercial] strip is marketed with the come-on of comfort (the Comfort Inn) and with the promise of a home on the… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
The nice thing about twitter is the architecture of visibility. Email is invisible unless you reach out to someone directly. With Twitter,… — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
The whole idea of action being a carrier of information is something that comes directly from theater. That's, in some ways, the… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
“just like we did back then. But the upgrades weren’t done yet, the builders still needed to expand the trench. So, now… — Steve the Noob Copy Share Image
Rather than asking architecture to be more interdisciplinary - a perennial issue within the discipline - I am suggesting that other disciplines… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
“What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star? That, by the way, is a phrase… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
I don't have regrets of being an architect. You are looking continuously - to the leaves of the trees, the shapes of… — Rafael Moneo Copy Share Image
The design of a temple depends on symmetry, the principles of which must be most carefully observed by the architect. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Computers allow architects to remain parental instead of being marginalized by the contractors and managers. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life. — Herbert Spencer 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
Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
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