The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
It is a gift, and you realize as soon as you cross the border into Paraguay, as I did, the first time… — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
In Miami they're building all these hideous monstrosities. It's just so easy to be an architect, once you've got the ability to… — Barbara Hulanicki Copy Share Image
For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I live in a craftsman house, but I'm a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream… — Luke Macfarlane Copy Share Image
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and… — James Rouse Copy Share Image
I classify Sao Paolo this way: The Governor's Palace is the living room. The mayor's office is the dining room and the… — Carolina Maria de Jesus Copy Share Image
When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
If two people have a couple of kids, somebody does have to take care of the kids. Somebody does have to cook… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
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
“Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is… — Chuck Palahniuk 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
Even with all of its changing, Brooklyn's architecture still feels like home, the language feels like home. It's changing so quickly that… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
If you have a structure beforehand, you're sort of stuffing your story into a pre-assembled box. You don't want that to happen.… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“… that architecture’s dependency, far from being its weakness, becomes its opportunity, with the architect acting as open-minded listener and feet-footed interpreter,… — Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
“This structure synthesizes what you know, indicates what else you need to know, and lays out your plan to address those remaining… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing… — Thomas Gibson Copy Share Image
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge… — Ralph Thomas Walker Copy Share Image
I can't go to a restaurant or a hotel now without looking at the architecture and wondering how it would look if… — Gareth Evans Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, my family first lived in West Los Angeles. Dad was studying architecture at USC and we didn't have a… — John Densmore Copy Share Image
Who I am as an architect and the history of my work - that's clear to anybody who hires me. But I… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
“I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
“Analogising architecture with ethics helps us to discern that there is unlikely ever to be a single source of beauty in a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I hate it when people let me down, when things are temporary. I think that's why I want to be an architect."… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry,… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image