Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution. — Henry Paulson Copy Share Image
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“Étant la plus saisissante manifestation de l'art des constructions métalliques par lesquelles nos ingénieurs se sont illustrés en Europe, elle est une… — Gustave Eiffel Copy Share Image
The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time. — Bertrand Delanoe Copy Share Image
I thought architecture would offer a mix of the artful and practical. It seemed cooler than some of the other options in… — Keller Easterling Copy Share Image
Architects thrive after massive urban disasters. The abject collapse of East Berlin gave us the only city in Europe with a mighty… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion. — Marcel Breuer Copy Share Image
At any point in the world's history most architecture is going to be bad but I think there's been a collective mentality… — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
“A New Blueprint: Time to Renovate the Architecture of Our Lives” — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures. — Frank Hornby Copy Share Image
“In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that assumed a fact… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I started to draw buildings. I called them Proposed Colossal Monuments - they weren't for real, not for actual building. It was… — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both. — Karl Lagerfeld Copy Share Image
“We take as building material relations and relata. The relations unite the relata; the relata are the meeting-points of the relations. The… — Arthur Stanley Eddington Copy Share Image
Many of the architects I admire have given the best of themselves as they mature. I'm hoping to do the same. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Modern architects and engineers are still trying to understand how the ancient Greeks were able to build the Parthenon in ten years… — Christopher Dunn Copy Share Image
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
