“In antiquity , for instance, one of the dominant images of the translators was that of a builder: his (usually it was… — Andrew Chesterman Copy Share Image
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic -… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I studied Russian history at school, and I absolutely loved St Petersburg. It was magnificent - the architecture is incredible and has… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines,… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying… — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the… — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
So I was drawing in a lot of the habit district in Brazil, put that together with an Asian influence, so there… — Len Wiseman Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The architects who benefit us most maybe those generous enough to lay aside their claims to genius in order to devote themselves… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“If you are a scientist or engineer, an architect or designer, a writer, artist, or musician, or if your creativity is a… — Richard Florida Copy Share Image
As an architect you are a builder. You are of course more than a builder. You need to be a militant, you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mies van der Rohe's architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now… — John Baldacci Copy Share Image
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Our work is connected to much larger structures and systems that can be influenced and changed to align with God's intention to… — David Kim Copy Share Image
“Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of… — Sarah Vowell 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
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
“Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
“That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
