Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Not a piece of architecture, as other buildings are, but the proud passions of an emperor's love wrought in living stones. — Edwin Arnold Copy Share Image
I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.” — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
I am trained as a fashion designer and do not claim to be an expert architect or anything like that. I won't… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
The architect aspires to build in a city as the artist aspires to exhibit his works in a museum. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it. — Claes Oldenburg Copy Share Image
“In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or… — Francis D.K. Ching Copy Share Image
There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts?… — Adolf Loos Copy Share Image
I have approached the buildings as psychological and poetic manifestations - rather than from the more technical viewpoints of the architect and… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
The best in art and life comes from a center - something urgent and powerful, an idea or emotion that insists on… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
As I considered Parker and his absurdist reflection in the Westlake-authored 'Dortmunder' novels, I wrote, 'His natural ability to observe human behavior… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
The more you enter, the more you become locked in. Your social-networking site becomes a central platform - a closed silo of… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the androgyny of Yohji Yamanoto's designs to translate the clothing's dualities onto screen and image. I was playing… — Collier Schorr Copy Share Image
The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
When you go to a normal architecture firm they aren't going to be innovative in terms of their systems. They're not going… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus… — Harry Lennix Copy Share Image
It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great.… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
My earliest memory of architecture, I was perhaps 6 or 7 years old, was of my aunt building a house in mosul… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Nine out of nine architects start with a sketch, and then they say, 'What should we make it out of?' I start… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” — Robin S. Sharma Copy Share Image
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress, — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
