After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major… — Anand Mahindra Copy Share Image
I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I think buildings should imitate ecological systems. Ecological systems in nature before we had human beings you know interfere with them exist… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before. — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
“Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it [...]” — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Likewise 'radical'. I'm only radical because the architectural profession has got lost. Architects are such a dull lot - and they're so… — Cedric Price 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
I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen. — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is changing the world. I don't care… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I am going, if I can, to be an architect, and I am too old already, and there is no time to… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
“The goal of architectural design is to create an architecture with a set of architectural properties that form a superset of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman. — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image