“Fine architecture is man’s tribute to the land it has been built on. So are the untouched, pristine lands he preserves for… — Tom Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. -Juhani Pallasmaa” — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. — Harry von Zell Copy Share Image
I tell people I would like to have been an architect. I like the creative aspect of that. I like the idea… — Justin Rose Copy Share Image
I believe architecture is a cultural output and I think Rem Koolhaas is one of the rare individuals who was able to… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I'd take it apart and reassemble it. At… — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there,… — Ryan Tedder Copy Share Image
There's no architect who doesn't want to build a library - and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create… — Keren Ann Copy Share Image
Our business has always been to create the structures, the environment, for people to do a variety of activities, not for us… — Robert Bigelow Copy Share Image
I love the fact that I work with everything that has to do with the brand, the product, the environment, the online,… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by structure and by exploring its possibilities. Throughout my life as a designer and maker, my structures… — David Trubridge Copy Share Image
As time went by we developed a sort of ideology without ever formulating it as such. I've always said that we are… — Bernd Becher Copy Share Image
“This broad tendency in human development seeks to identify structures of hierarchy, authority and domination that constrain human development, and then subject… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've always been interested, - if you look back at my work from the beginning, really - I've always been interested in… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
When we think of design, we usually imagine things that are chosen because they are designed. Vases or comic books or architecture...… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Page 158: 'Architecture is team work,' said Sinan. 'Apprenticeship is not.' 'Why don't you want us to look at each other's drawings?… — Elif Şafak Copy Share Image
I don't really know what's going to happen 10,000 years from now. We've been biologically modern for, what, almost 200,000 years? Let's… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There can be little question that the tall building presents one of the most difficult challenges to the architect. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. — Claudio Silvestrin Copy Share Image
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture. — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Our children may learn about heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves architects of the future. — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“We are all architects of our current opportunities, build the best out of what you have at this moment.” — Wayne Chirisa Copy Share Image
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most flattering things in the world is for parents to write to me saying their children want… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell. — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission. — Liam Cunningham Copy Share Image
To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up… — Andre Øvredal Copy Share Image
In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through - if it is labored, it fails. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval… — Goldwin Smith Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
A lot of people call me the architect of rock & roll. I don't call myself that, but I believe it's true. — Little Richard Copy Share Image
