“But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to… — Greg Lynn Copy Share Image
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other… — Michel de Certeau Copy Share Image
When you see all of the pandas in this movie [Kung Fu Panda 3], they are rolling because that is exactly what… — Jennifer Yuh Nelson Copy Share Image
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my… — Roopa Ganguly Copy Share Image
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there. — Drew Barrymore Copy Share Image
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
Preston Sturges, who wrote The Palm Beach Story, said screenplay writing is architecture. That's why it's so rare to read one that's… — Hampton Fancher Copy Share Image
The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything. — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
“structure has been defined as ‘any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads’, and the study of structures is one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
