When engineers and quantity surveyors discuss aesthetics and architects study what cranes do we are on the right road. — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
As your personal architect, I promise to design and build my whole life around you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My identity is always at the forefront, and I also think that every article that is written about me refers to me… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“An architect is a generalist, not a specialist-the conductor of a symphony, not a virtuoso who plays every instrument perfectly. As a… — Matthew Frederick Copy Share Image
Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose. — Wu Guanzhong Copy Share Image
What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well. — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
“All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily… — Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever… — Max Weinberg Copy Share Image
It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.” — Owen Hatherley Copy Share Image
The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to… — Hartmut Esslinger Copy Share Image
Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics,… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
“The city planning profession’s historic concern with the physical environment has warped its ability to see physical structures and land as servants… — Paul Davidoff Copy Share Image