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 don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic… — Roy Lichtenstein Copy Share Image
To have a young person speak back, to hand him the microphone for his first-person utterances, you'd have to have an imagined… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
The original Heart logo was made back in the real early '70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a… — Ann Wilson Copy Share Image
Hunts Point Revival's reuse of the existing structure as part of the new development was conceptually bold and challenging. Overall, the project… — Edward Mazria Copy Share Image
Conversion requires a subtler mind. Architects don't like it, architects want to create their own landmark buildings so that people a few… — Jonathan Meades 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
“superstitions, our worries and our wars; they will gawk at our cruelty. They will study our art and argue over our history.… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform… — Kenneth Frampton Copy Share Image
I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on 'DmC Devil May Cry,' and I kind of fell in love with… — Hideaki Itsuno Copy Share Image
Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the 'application layer' of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart… — Michael O'Rielly Copy Share Image
“When he first saw the little room with the glass balcony, Mr. Liechtenstein immediately thought of the archaic aristocratic English garden concept… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If we can think about not the object, but the process of creating the object, in short, we have no constraints. We… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
“The primary contention is that man consists of body, soul and spirit and that each of these needs to be acknowledged and… — Kenneth Bayes 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
Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
“Think of facts and figures as bricks and cement, and science or scientific understanding as a building. Without the vision of the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The structure of the company is constantly changing. The composition of the necessary working groups is constantly changing. We have many divisions… — Mikhail Khodorkovsky Copy Share Image
“A church leader studied the history of architecture in New Zealand and found that before World War II, homes were built with… — Lee Strobel Copy Share Image
“Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act… — James P. Gorman Copy Share Image
[On Addis Ababa:] Among the city's handicaps are an immaturity for which no one can be blamed, as it was founded only… — Dervla Murphy Copy Share Image
The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“The facility occupied the ground floor of a gray commercial building hemmed in by rusting fire escapes and choked with high-tension wires… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for 'Homeland,' and I just found myself just wandering… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
If the embodiment of the fundamental idea of our age were to be found in Victorian architecture, in the Church of Cristo… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“Feminism, in its fullest meaning, enjoins the human race to establish zones of liberation, and literally to reshape the territorial definition of… — Leslie Weisman Copy Share Image
A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give… — Madame de Stael 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
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today… — Alan Weisman Copy Share Image
“Nothing man made was perfect. A partnership wasn't about being beautiful and adored...it was about incorporating the mistakes into the architecture and… — Suanne Laqueur Copy Share Image
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