Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
Architecture exists, like cinema, in the dimension of time and movement — Jean Nouvel 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
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
What you newspaper and magazine writers, who work in rabbit time, don't understand is that the practice of architecture has to be… — Eero Saarinen Copy Share Image
Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse. — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
I never look at the newspaper in the morning. That's the worst thing you can do with your brain. — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
I view the JVM as just another architecture that Perl ought to be ported to. (That, and the Underwood typewriter...) — Larry Wall Copy Share Image
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than… — John Updike Copy Share Image
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
I would hope that the Government would still support those small, struggling independent theatre companies and also maybe look to the built… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
My first venture to Qatar was with WWE. It was an incredible tour and we stayed at a luxurious hotel. I ventured… — Matt Sydal Copy Share Image
In my head, my business is architecture and furniture; it's 70 percent Prouvé, and Corbusier, Royer, Jeanneret - they all passed away.… — Patrick Seguin Copy Share Image
“The ballpark is the star. In the age of Tris Speaker and Babe Ruth, the era of Jimmie Foxx and Ted Williams,… — Anonymous 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
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
Qatar does not have much history, it's a new emirate. So I couldn't draw on the history of the country; its history… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
