I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some… — Rob Chapman Copy Share Image
I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I've always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave… — Ben van Berkel Copy Share Image
I have an interest in architecture, although more theoretically than anything else. I think architecture tries to understand what the body wants… — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
I learn more from creative people in other disciplines than I do even from other architects because I think they have a… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
“Anger can be likened to an architect’s blueprint. The availability of a blueprint does not cause a building to be constructed, but… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory it is associated with objects… — Aldo Rossi Copy Share Image
Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
An architect, to be a true exponent of his time, must possess first, last and always the sympathy, the intuition of a… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains, ask yourself the question: Not what style, but in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things -… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
“I found when I followed the driveway around to the back that behind its imposing front it was just another tract house,… — Ross Macdonald Copy Share Image
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
I love architecture, I love buildings, I love history, buildings that have got a story to tell, and we can save the… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Schinkel was not arbitrary in his use of historical modes but rather eclectic in the best sense of the word. He could… — Karl Friedrich Schinkel Copy Share Image
When a house is being built which is to be made as strong as possible, the building takes place in fine weather… — Origen Copy Share Image
“Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings instead of… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
We need to ask ourselves what kind of systems and structures we want in place - not only for people to survive,… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
We weren't meant to have futures, we were meant to marry them. We weren't meant to have politics, or careers that mattered,… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
One summer, when I was on break from architecture school in Tijuana, my aunt gave me a summer job cleaning up and… — Marcela Valladolid Copy Share Image
When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren't particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“Foundational design principles regarding aesthetics, symbolism and meaning of place were for the old-timer carpenter, simply routine. Unfortunately, these principles began to… — Shannon Taylor Scarlett Copy Share Image
Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion… — Andre Leon Talley Copy Share Image
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple… — Oskar Schlemmer Copy Share Image
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I think, you know, architecture should not just be something that follows up on events but be a leader of events ...… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
An obsession that I've developed in my old age, is great architecture. I bought a house in New Orleans and I became… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
Of course, I didn't become an architect, but later on in Iran, I had a lot of contact and discussions with architects… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
“At comelitre we have Best Interior Designers in London because Our London based interior designers are highly qualified Italian architects as well… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with courage and idealism, but also with… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
