But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Copy Share Image
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. — Ernest Dimnet Copy Share Image
Too many architects are just trying to make all of their buildings look like a brand, and that may be good for… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
If you look at the Earth without architecture, its sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“I think that men have no right to profess themselves architects hastily, without having climbed from the steps of these studies and… — Vitruvius Copy Share Image
Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
When the old way of seeing was displaced, a hollowness came into architecture. Our buildings show a constant effort to fill that… — Jonathan Hale Copy Share Image
Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time, 'How can I walk in these heels?' I answer with the best compliment I remember that… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
Architecture is art. I don't think you should say that too much, but it is art. I mean, architecture is many, many… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
“Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental fallacy to think that our human bodies work like the structures that humans have built.” — Kaminoff, Leslie Copy Share Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“They needed to take action, make haste, embalm the dead town, dress the wounds of the sculptures, heal the sick windows, give… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. — Denise Scott Brown Copy Share Image
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the… — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
