I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. — John Rocha Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I like to work in a team. And for that you must have a structure that covers everything and that there is… — Raul Copy Share Image
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Command and control corporate structure is out. Collaboration, decentralization and empowerment of small groups and the human spirit is in and is… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
I've always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would've had to quit… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
When you're in school until you're 25 and you get out and suddenly structure is not handed to you, if you're smart… — Anson Mount Copy Share Image
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
We must note carefully what distinction there is between a healthy and a diseased love of change; for as it was in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Mishka has his “project”; and this young architect, unable to build buildings, takes pride and pleasure from the careful drafting of hotel… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I'm afraid what we are building today will not have the same impact and sustainability of the architecture of a 100, 500… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“I heard a story once in the Orient about two architects who went to see the Buddha. They had run out of… — Colin Higgins Copy Share Image
“First a small team writes a small system. Then they find the natural fracture lines and divide the system into relatively independent… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on… — Iain Sinclair Copy Share Image
Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from… — Roger Black Copy Share Image
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture. — Kris Marshall Copy Share Image
I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle. — Kelly Wearstler Copy Share Image
Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down. — Justin Davidson Copy Share Image
I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you. — Alex Winter 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
The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through… — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
I think, in our modern cities, there are a lot of boxes; there are a lot of straight lines. They often deal… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
