“The apartment faces an alley and is entered by a fire-escape, a structure whose name is a touch of accidental poetic truth,… — Tennessee Williams - The Glass Menagerie Copy Share Image
I would like to have . . . architecture that belonged where you see it standingand is a grace to the landscape… — Uknown Copy Share Image
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Our business has always been to create the structures, the environment, for people to do a variety of activities, not for us… — Robert Bigelow Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Boundaries are basically about providing structure, and structure is essential in building anything that thrives. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They… — Evelyn Waugh 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
“It follows that the balance we approve of in architecture, and which we anoint with the word 'beautiful', alludes to a state… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.” — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
“One afternoon he started to talk about his collection of books. Of 3000 books, he found only 30 worth keeping. We were… — Werner Blaser Copy Share Image
A building does not have to be an important work of architecture to become a first-rate landmark. Landmarks are not created by… — Herbert Muschamp Copy Share Image
In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The fine arts are five in number, namely: painting, sculpture, poetry, music, and architecture, the principal branch of the latter being pastry. — Marie-Antoine Careme Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There are so many constraints on the architect that public buildings almost never feel free or enjoyable. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
“Architects mostly work for privileged people, people who have money and power,” Ban said recently. “Power and money are invisible, so people… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Structure is important in film, but there's often structure to be found in the most unlikely of places! It's quite possible to… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
