Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know. — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
My buildings should have an emotional core –a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“Don’t picture yourselves as architects coming in with a complete blueprint, but rather as adventurers, trying to decipher a treasure map together.” — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
“Why did you decide to be an architect?” “I didn’t know it then. But it’s because I’ve never believed in God.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially… — Akiko Busch Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“this architect who everyone misunderstands. I completely forget to ask what she and Charlene are going to laugh about. One evening Mama… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Within the human consciousness is the unique ability to perceive the transparency between absolute, permanent relationships, contained in the insubstantial forms of… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
The strengths landscape architecture draws from its garden design heritage include: the Vitruvian design tradition of balancing utility, firmness and beauty; use… — Tom Turner Copy Share Image
“One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were… — Werner Blaser Copy Share Image
The geometry reveals five development direction for applications (each with endless possibilities); dividing, dwelling, trestle, fenestration and artistic installation. I find these… — Dror Benshetrit Copy Share Image
“For it to be successful, the architect must • remember that the builder has the inventive and creative responsibility for the implementation;… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
“The success of the scaling-up process depends upon the fact that the conceptual integrity of each piece has been radically improved—that the… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man,--and I think that it is, though only… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Princeton University's campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
I don't believe architecture has to speak too much. It should remain silent and let nature in the guise of sunlight and… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter… — Henry Kravis Copy Share Image
Being an architect is like playing piano, you learn to play to admire how well the other guys play piano. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect. — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
With products the form is almost the finished piece, but with architecture it is not. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
“He had a theory going about cities, that the dominant industry of the town filtered into every level of the place, from… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
The cave art of Madison Avenue has been by far the most innovative and educative art form of the twentieth century. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk Copy Share Image
A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that has another sense, when compared with such… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As a kid I wanted to be a vet; I wanted to be an architect. I was and still am such a… — Sophie Cookson Copy Share Image
Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper. — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
