I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past,… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
One inconvenience I sometimes experienced in so small a house, the difficulty of getting to a sufficient distance from my guest when… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Architecture arises out of our need to shelter the human animal in a spatial environment and to enclose the social animal in… — Robert L. Geddes Copy Share Image
The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest… — George E Hartman Copy Share Image
One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies. — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
I always had some kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them,… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time. — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Any set of decisions about design is inevitably influenced by cultural prejudice, no matter how intent an architect might be to avoid… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life… — Hill Harper Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I'm sure this kind of box-building was… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
In my heart I believe that biology is the beginning and the end of everything. It's the biggest source of ideas, the… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has… — Ludovico Einaudi 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
Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
