Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a… — Richard Moe Copy Share Image
A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I… — Scott Foley Copy Share Image
That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want… — David Amram Copy Share Image
No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space… — Brian Foote Copy Share Image
If the ancients left us ideas, to our credit be it spoken that we moderns are building houses for them -- structures… — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Music, from being an ordered succession of sounds, has become a matter of "sonorities", and anyone who can produce a brightly coloured… — Constant Lambert Copy Share Image
Indeed, an engineer designing a structure is not unlike an artist painting one. Both start with nothing but talent, experience, and inspiration.… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Do you mean to tell me that you're thinking seriously of building that way, when and if you are an architect?" Yes."… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
“In 2001, the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc), an avant-garde architecture school that has produced some of the prominent architects in… — James Frey Copy Share Image
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe.… — RZA Copy Share Image
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
I think architects have a major role in being responsible for illustrating what the future could be. Because of the very strong… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architects, painters, and sculptors must recognize anew and learn to grasp the composite character of a building both as an entity and… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
“In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or… — Francis D.K. Ching Copy Share Image
There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts?… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it… — Tom Kundig Copy Share Image
As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored 'Dortmunder' novels, I wrote, 'His natural ability to observe human behavior… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
There's this very vulnerable planet of ours with finite resources. Architects and designers have, I think, a fair responsibility for conserving energy… — Robin Day Copy Share Image
“All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily… — Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky - we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
I would say that many architects are very logical. They start their process from analysis and from rational processes to try and… — Ma Yansong 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
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane - not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Of all forms of visible otherworldliness, it seems to me, the Gothic is at once the most logical and the most beautiful.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am very sure that my children thrive on structure and need boundaries. I know my children need to know what time… — Jessica Seinfeld Copy Share Image
