Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
There was a time when I experienced architecture without thinking about it, — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject - architecture - that I had already… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
Shoe design is like architecture - with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness. — Patrick Cox Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in the idea of the artificial landscape. Reforming the landscape. Architecture being a method of reforming the earth's… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied… — Michael Mandelbaum 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
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
Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
The dynamic ideal we call democracy, gradually growing up in the human heart for two-thousand five hundred years, at least, has now… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“Honestly, the only question most Americans ask about a new building at this point is basically: Is it a soul-sucking eyesore of… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
It's my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Architecture is made of memory. The slope of a roof, the shape of a window, and the color of a door contain… — Anthony Lawlor Copy Share Image
It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
My husband John's and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
There is a regulation of behavior on the Internet and in cyberspace, but that regulation is imposed primarily through code. The differences… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I am critical of the fact that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is pulling out of everything - the joint approach to… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
Traditional society was more like a set of concentric circles of meaningful structures, while modern man must learn how to find meaning… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
The problems of human subjectivity replicate themselves at many different scales, like the overtones and undertones in a stringed instrument striking ghost-intervals… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
If you are not a New Yorker, when you arrive there for the first time you have the impression you grew up… — Deniz Gamze Erguven Copy Share Image
I was thinking about the generation before us, like John Barth and all of those pomo dudes who had that idea of,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I sell architecture better and more directly and more vividly than the architect does... The average architect is stupid. He doesn't know… — Julius Shulman Copy Share Image
I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. — John Rocha Copy Share Image
