Angkor is perhaps the greatest of Man's essays in rectangular architecture that has yet been brought to life. — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang Copy Share Image
All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
A couturier must be an architect for design, a sculptor for shape, a painter for color, a musician for harmony, and a… — Cristobal Balenciaga Copy Share Image
The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“The real architect of a life is the hard and almost impossible circumstances one faces.” — John Paul Warren Copy Share Image
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
“Except for practices that incorporate design as the way they practice—for example, architecture and engineering—the art of design is not incorporated into… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
What each school offers is something unique. But, there are two types of activity an architect must be educated on. First, the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I think there's going to be a real push in the next two years in Asia - China and Korea specifically. And… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
Your rainbow panorama enters into a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what is assured beforehand, that is to say the… — Olafur Eliasson Copy Share Image
Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Architectural education is notably under-theorised as an underlying discipline, though is clearly intensely theorised as a set of surface actions. It has… — Tatjiana Schneider Nishat Awan Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
“Le Corbusier’s unrendered concrete towers, after 27 years of Punjab sun and monsoon and sub-Himalayan winter, looked stained and diseased, and showed… — V.S. Naipaul 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
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
The architect needs to learn to see, and to open his eyes because there is always a lesson to learn from the… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I would have loved to be the designer of the Capitol of the United States. I would love to do some important… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
There is no architect Can build as the Muse can; She is skilful to select Materials for her plan. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The first thing to learn about the deep structure of modern design is that it is relation-seeking and pleasurably so. — Norman Potter Copy Share Image
I don't see any difference between architecture and engineering. It's the same profession. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I love walking along Leiths waterfront and wandering around some of New Towns beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
Fashion, art, and architecture are all so tightly connected; I think the way to approach referencing these art works is by capturing… — Roksanda Ilincic Copy Share Image
My father was an architect and I grew up knowing more about planning regulations and the constraints of old buildings than most… — Tanni Grey-Thompson Copy Share Image
