The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
The current state of architecture and design requires extensive collaboration and an investigative attitude and we continue to research and develop new… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I started to begin to be interested in architecture and design when I was 14 years old, which was pretty early in… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image
In martial arts one of the first things that you learn is to be balanced. Balance is the central principle in architecture… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to separate the microclimate from the macro space… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client… — Fumihiko Maki Copy Share Image
