Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people. — Brian Webb Copy Share Image
“C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
I went into architecture a little as 'Peck's Bad Boy.' It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way. — James Polshek 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
I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The… — Van Day Truex Copy Share Image
Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
My grandfather and my dad's brothers and my dad all worked in construction. It's the whole cultural thing, you know, your parents… — Bruce Molsky Copy Share Image
A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine. Unfortunately, these principles began to… — Shannon Taylor Scarlett Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that… — Ian Hamilton Finlay 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
The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
“Tell me yourself directly, I challenge you – reply: imagine that you yourself are erecting the edifice of human fortune with the… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other… — Bernard Beckett Copy Share Image
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation, — Donald Judd Copy Share Image
“The facility occupied the ground floor of a gray commercial building hemmed in by rusting fire escapes and choked with high-tension wires… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
