Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music. — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Most problems I work on are related to geometric structures on surfaces and their deformations. — Maryam Mirzakhani Copy Share Image
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
We are all affected by Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, Alvar Aalto, and Mies van der Rohe. But no less than Bramante,… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'll go back into medicine. As much as I love it and went to school for it, my… — Tayshia Adams Copy Share Image
Good design is a great combination of common sense, unusual imagination, clarity of purpose–with a prerequisite knowledge of structure, values, color, aesthetic… — Millard Sheets Copy Share Image
“The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A.… — Moby Copy Share Image
I started off in architecture, and I just couldn't fit into the vibe there. I just felt more at home in the… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Art is a jealous mistress, and if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. — Daniel Burnham Copy Share Image
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Good design and talented architects can transform an ugly house on a relatively accessible and achievable budget. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
“At Tom's back, receding from view, lay State Street's Victorian brick facades, where lobbyists and trade associations housed their offices, like a… — Joan Quigley Copy Share Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Sometimes it takes a crisis for people to agree that what is obvious and should have been done years ago, can no… — Gordon Brown Copy Share Image
Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I refer of course to the soaring wonder of the age known as the Eiffel Tower. Never in history has a structure… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest… — Laura Linney Copy Share Image
Architects, if they are really to be comprehensive, must assume the enormous task of thinking in terms always disciplined to the scale… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The World's Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art... If you follow this approach you can use… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
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