What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking ball at the site.” — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A reliable assurance of the right and ability to dismantle the constructed structure must be offered, before the job of construction starts… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“The white façades of the villas and apartment houses were like blocks of time that had crystallised beside the road.” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face. — Vidal Sassoon Copy Share Image
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I used to be an architect, so I have a series I am working on with USA Network that I created and… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock &… — Jimmy Page Copy Share Image
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
“You’re standing in the middle of a blank piece of paper. Unleash your inner architect and design your path to success. Get… — Lilly Singh Copy Share Image
We're always taught that we're building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
I have a commission to do a piece in a place in California, Oliver Ranch, which has an eight-storey structure called The… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
All buildings, large or small, public or private, have a public face, a facade; they therefore, without exception, have a positive or… — Leon Krier 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
“It took Feyra some time to realise that she was not delirious: the citizens were wearing painted masks.From childhood she had heard… — Marina Fiorato Copy Share Image
The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is the mighty act of will, the will which moves… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
My mom is an architect by trade, but I think she's mostly a creative spirit. She's always making something, whether it's furniture… — Julio Torres Copy Share Image
“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, looked like something out of an alien hallucination—a swirling collage of warped metallic forms that appeared… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place in all this? Unfortunately we are no longer the interpreters of our… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. — Appius Claudius Caecus Copy Share Image
“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account. — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
