The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dancing and building are the two primary and essential arts. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts… — Havelock Ellis 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
“Why didn’t I become an architect? Answer: Because I thought the sheets of paper on which I was to pour my dreams… — Iain Borden Copy Share Image
Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
They say that structure is freedom, and in a sense it is. When you're dealing with multiple constraints, you have to figure… — Demetri Martin Copy Share Image
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. — Robin Boyd 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
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
“I looked up in curiosity. Behind us stood the Brown and Eagle Wool Warehouse and Schneider's Cap Factory, both constructed with that… — Lyndsay Faye Copy Share Image
“Steiner's teachings begin and end with man but in between is humankind, the earth, the cosmos. Architecture is the same: it too… — Kenneth Bayes Copy Share Image
I used to read more when I was a kid than I do now. It was all sort of fuel for the… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Whenever when I sit all alone reminiscing about those people that build up my world, then your thought come to my mind… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I… — Dale Chihuly Copy Share Image
