Most of the wonderful places in the world were not made by architects but by the people. — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and… — Denise Scott Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree. — Jaime Lerner Copy Share Image
I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person. — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful. — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the most important architectural principle of all when it comes to houses of worship: It is not the size,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But good information architecture can do more than just help people find objects and information. It can empower people by making it… — Donna Spencer Copy Share Image
The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count… — Marques Brownlee Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past,… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
The role of the architect as artist is an ancient one, but it was de-emphasized with the rise of modernism, which rejected… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
In architecture, to do anything beyond object form is often treated as something extra-disciplinary - something outside the discipline that has nothing… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan,… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
There are lots of incredible people who are working in very flawed structures that are designed to keep us apart, so we're… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The crystal ball has a question mark in its center. There are some fundamental choices to be made. We will either choose… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Your mind is the matrix, the door will lead you to the architect. The architect is you. You're the key maker, you… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Leisure, itself the creation of wealth, is incessantly engaged in transmuting wealth into beauty by secreting the surplus energy which flowers in… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century exponents of prefabrication were certain it would supplant age-old traditions of individualized design and handcrafted construction. The building art… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
