Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“As architect of your reality, you are empowered to create it as you choose.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive. — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
“You Don't Need To Jump Off Of A Building To Appreciate Architecture” — Dean Cavanagh Copy Share Image
The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment. — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
The difference between a builder and an architect is that an architect also cares about desire, about dreams. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning. — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
There's a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it's like architecture or mathematics. — Philip Treacy Copy Share Image
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a ditch is a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We need better architecture and planning: more imaginatively exciting, more involving, more our own. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
“Nomadom je postao onda kada je o omjeru ljepote počeo razmišljati kao o ljubavnom odnosu između dvaju dijelova u kojem se suprotnosti… — Jasna Horvat Copy Share Image
Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most… — John Howe Copy Share Image
Architects typically inherit programmes or sites. We maybe twist the programme a little bit, bring our own invention into it, and we… — Elizabeth Diller 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
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
For me, [deep structures] might be something very simply to do with the split in my family. That's why I'm always thinking… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Until the first blow fell, no one was convinced that Penn Station really would be demolished, or that New York would permit… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I am big supporter of the idea of a global anti-corruption movement - but one that begins by recognizing that the architecture… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Let the labyrinth of wrinkles be furrowed in my brow with the red-hot iron of my own life, let my hair whiten… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
“The professors at MIT—some of the most innovative technologists in the world—wanted nothing to do with an open-office-style workspace. They instead demanded… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
“History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with… — Thomas B. Costain Copy Share Image