Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces,… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability… — Mark Wigley Copy Share Image
“We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are… — Samuel Rogers Copy Share Image
Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter -… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The so-called Christian nations are the most enlightened and progressive ... but in spite of their religion, not because of it. The… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to… — Greg Lynn Copy Share Image
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
“A configuration is the structure of architectural relationships among components, connectors, and data during a period of system run-time.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
I started with straight, basic, symbolic structures. My problem now is the opposite; as I get older, I try to make my… — Robert Motherwell Copy Share Image
“Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.” — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export… — Matt Hancock Copy Share Image
A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“We’re too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.” — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
The human psyche creates structure. We all go through our lives like, 'Oh! And then I moved here.' We're pattern-seeking, structure-producing machines. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.” — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
