Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion. — Marcel Breuer Copy Share Image
Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
The task of the architectural project is to reveal, through the transformation of form, the essence of the surrounding context. — Vittorio Gregotti Copy Share Image
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia Copy Share Image
That's why you go into architecture - at least I did - to do things for people. I think most of us… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational. — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
“...architecture was what you had instead of landscape, a signal of loss, of imitation. Europe had it in spades...” — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
“An old house that had lived its life long ago and so was very quiet and wise and a little mysterious. Also… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Architects create spaces that accommodate human activity. As opposed to many of its contemporary counterparts, Dune'is not so much focused on the… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us -… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the world is composed of stories. For architects, the world is composed of buildings, for actors the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into… — Aga Khan IV Copy Share Image
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The thing people forget is that the entire world - or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union - that security… — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
Sometimes , Love just seems so hard to express itself.. Only yourself, through your soul do you know how it feels like.… — Hao Ming Copy Share Image
I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing… — Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Copy Share Image
I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I have always been interested in fashion as an informing design discipline: proportion structure, detail, materiality, texture, color and quality. With a… — Charles Gwathmey Copy Share Image
Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is.… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material,… — Eliot Noyes Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. — Charles Eames Copy Share Image
Structure influences behavior. Design spaces that make you feel "you are welcome here and that you came to the right place." — Peter Block Copy Share Image
They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
There's a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“Architecture is not a business, not a career, but a crusade and a consecration to a joy that justifies the existence of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.” — James C. Snyder Copy Share Image
Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“sketching out, like an architect, the plan of salvation to those that pleased Him.” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image