People often ask me if I consider myself to be an architect, fashion designer, or artist. I'm an architect. The paintings I've… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“This structure synthesizes what you know, indicates what else you need to know, and lays out your plan to address those remaining… — Victor Cheng Copy Share Image
What makes architecture extraordinary is that you're looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within… — Sydney Pollack Copy Share Image
My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
“The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.” — Lee Battersby Copy Share Image
If music is frozen architecture, then the potpourri is frozen coffee-table gossip... Potpourri is the art of adding apples to pears… — Arnold Schoenberg Copy Share Image
The surroundings householders crave are glorified autobiographies ghost-written by willing architects and interior designers who, like their clients, want to show off. — T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Copy Share Image
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing… — Vito Acconci 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 a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. Its the art of putting… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
