My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers,… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
The quality of American life is an insult to the possibilities of human growth... the pollution of American space, with gadgetry and… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Principles of design: 1. Use both knowledge in the world and knowledge in the head. 2. Simplify the structure of tasks. 3.… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so… — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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
If you're inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you're doing yourself and L.A.… — Moby Copy Share Image
“The old house had a thousand doors in it. All old houses do. You can see them if you know how to… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
If the king is in the palace, nobody looks at the walls. It is when he is gone, and the house is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.… — John Hench Copy Share Image
I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere - the furniture, the… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic -… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple… — Oskar Schlemmer Copy Share Image
I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps… — James Maslow Copy Share Image
Britain gets the architecture it deserves. We don’t value architecture, we don’t take it seriously, we don’t want to pay for it… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
A large number of us have developed a feeling that architects tend to design houses for the approval of fellow architects and… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city. — Richard Ernst Copy Share Image
