The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant. — Dacre Montgomery Copy Share Image
The architect is not only the director, but he is the composer. And, as a composer, the architect brings a sense of… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don't come from outer space and crash into… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general. — Arizona Muse Copy Share Image
“Our children may learn about the heroes of the past. Our task is to make ourselves the architects of the future.” — Jomo Kenyatta Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It's really hard to work… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening… — John Green Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls;… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“the architecture student from number eleven presses his face to the glass and looks at the way the light falls through the… — Jon McGregor Copy Share Image
It was very definitely architectural. I was using the words on the page as some kind of equivalent of a physical model.… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“If there are n workers on a project, there are (n2–n)/2 interfaces across which there may be communication, and there are potentially… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who… — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Architecture forms a vital link between people and their surroundings. It acts as a gentle buffer between the fragility of human existence… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it's the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the… — Eric Whitacre Copy Share Image
“Nathaniel Willis, having spent his first week walking the city in drizzling rain, said that when the sun burst forth at last… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible. — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Timothy O'Sullivan was, it seems to me, the greatest of the photographers because he understood nature first as architecture. — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write.… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
“Design Thinking is about to connect ideas and methods from different areas of thought, in order to create new structures, new associations,… — Jose Betancur Copy Share Image
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“...the Office's prime approach to architecture... is one of continuous ANTICIPATORY DESIGN.” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
The slurbs, urban sprawl, and the infinite number, of housing developments of the postwar boom have contributed to the architecture of entropy. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
Shake structures. School yourself. Look twice at a thing, once upside down. Answer yourself clearly. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
In fact, the public will accept any city plan and skyline provided that its architecture is traditional. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
