The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
My girlfriend: sophomore honors student, demigod, and—oh, yeah—head architect for redesigning the palace of the gods on Mount Olympus in her spare… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams. — Ivan Chtcheglov Copy Share Image
Although we're architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The difference between regulated architects and unregulated designers is, unlike buildings, letterheads don't fall down and kill people. — Brian Webb Copy Share Image
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them. — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines,… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
“I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the sculptural experience, glass, marble, colored bricks, stones, wood. There's no stadium out there that approximates it [the Marlins']… — Jeffrey Loria Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure… — Fred Brooks Copy Share Image
The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I think it's basically quite different from dreams. If only cinema was that easy. Because dreams, all you have to do is… — Kenneth Anger Copy Share Image
If we could understand the full significance of a woman's hat we could prophesy her clothes for the next year, the interior… — James Laver Copy Share Image
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
Architects and food at a construction site equals indigestion. We're always looking for details that haven't been executed correctly. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical? — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Architects themselves tend to shy away from the word, preferring instead to talk about the manipulation of space. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building. — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“I shouldn’t need to explain why building something without any structure is a bad idea.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
If you're serious about being an architect, you've got to learn how to take responsibility. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image