We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create architecture as landscape. But I'm not copying nature. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“For the palace was but emptiness, a hole in a labyrinth of lines, a skyward precipice.” — Paul Willems Copy Share Image
“Never be a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of you future. You will never be the same.” — Robin Sharma Copy Share Image
The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens Copy Share Image
It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the limbs of man. — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
A tranquil city of good laws, fine architecture, and clean streets is like a classroom of obedient dullards, or a field of… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I've had the chance to see so many… — Gauri Khan Copy Share Image
If architecture is going to nudge, cajole, and inspire a community to challenge the status quo into making responsible changes, it will… — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires ... We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Furthermore, order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
One of the reasons why architects are often attracted to philosophers, partially, has to do with making sense of the world around… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The gothic is singular in this; one seems easily at home in the renaissance; one is not too strange in the Byzantine;… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their… — Joshua Landis Copy Share Image
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
Architects in urban planning are talking about this but they're not talking about it yet I don't think at that level that… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I want to try to come away from that one directional, clear rectangular form. It's not used because it's the most beautiful… — Pipilotti Rist Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
I mean, if I'm talking about architecture, I like Robert Mallet-Stevens. — Rick Owens Copy Share Image
Open-source code is extremely well-adapted to service-oriented architecture. — Winston Damarillo Copy Share Image
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