The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Good design today requires more vision (a larger point of view versus the single brilliant idea), more consistency (a deeper underlying structure… — William Drenttel Copy Share Image
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led… — Ben Nicholson 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
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
The content could be done anyplace, but the real invention is the architecture. The architecture is the only work that really defines… — Miuccia Prada Copy Share Image
He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
“Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago - at least over 30 years ago - to get architecture… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Backyards are as Australian as the Hills Hoists they host, and as individual as those who work and play in them. Whether… — Pete Munro Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance. — Carrie Mae Weems Copy Share Image
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career?… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
