The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I'd say I never considered myself a great architect. I'm more of a creative problem solver with good taste and a soft… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
I never thought I was going to be an architect in the conventional sense. — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
When we come to understand architecture as the essential nature of all harmonious structure we will see that it is the architecture… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“Vivian’s first impression of Solidago was that she had travelled back in time, but not to a time where architecture had been… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that's important because it gives you a direct connection to… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
I have an expensive hobby: buying homes, redoing them, tearing them down and building them up the way they want to be… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Sustainability has become a religion in architecture - not that there's anything wrong with it - but I think it has to… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
Sometimes when I sit all alone reminiscing about those people that build up my world, then your thought come instantly because you… — Usman Ismaheel Copy Share Image
“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly,… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Architects believe that not only do they sit at the right hand of God, but that if God ever gets up, they… — Karen Moyer Copy Share Image
I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. — Alexander Jackson Davis Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. — Delia Ephron Copy Share Image