The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten. — William H. Whyte Copy Share Image
“Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.” — Beatriz Colomina Copy Share Image
I ended up as an American Studies Major but my real interest was architecture. — Steve Purdy Copy Share Image
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe 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
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write.… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“Go drinking and come up with an idea and do it. I gave away the keys to the castle.” He doesn’t see… — Jeff Gordinier 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
I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers,… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
“the architecture student from number eleven presses his face to the glass and looks at the way the light falls through the… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
It was very definitely architectural. I was using the words on the page as some kind of equivalent of a physical model.… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“If there are n workers on a project, there are (n2–n)/2 interfaces across which there may be communication, and there are potentially… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
“We are sometimes astounded by the behavior of emotional outlaws, as they act in line with their own standards, but proceed like… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Pertaining to a certain order of architecture, otherwise known as Normal American. Most of the public buildings of the United States are… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“And now we come to the Heart of our Designe: the art of Shaddowes you must know well, Walter, and you must… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes… — Andrew Jackson Downing Copy Share Image
