I've met architects before, and they're not living the life we see on TV. — Casey Wilson Copy Share Image
The hardest thing in practice is finding enough time to think about design. — John McAslan Copy Share Image
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky Copy Share Image
In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures. — Frank Gehry 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
How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Designs belong to individual designers; Architecture belongs to communities of practice. We” — Peter Lucas Copy Share Image
I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style. — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
“Businesses are great structures for managing big projects. It’s like trying to develop the ability to walk without developing a skeleton. Once… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am… — Sarah Morris Copy Share Image
“That’s Manhattan today—all the money goes up top, while the infrastructure wastes away from neglect. The famous skyline is a cheap trick… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“Within the overall structure of a project there is always room for individuality and craftsmanship… One hundred years from now, our engineering… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career?… — Rachel McAdams Copy Share Image
A work based only on a line concept is scarcely more than a illustration; it fails to achieve pictorial structure. Pictorial structure… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
For me, architecture is an art the same as painting is an art or sculpture is an art. Yet, architecture moves a… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
When most people looked at Josie Tyrell, they only saw a certain collection of bones, a selection of forms filling space. But… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
Winning the Pritzker assures a flood of work in one's seventies and eighties, jobs necessarily carried out by assistants as the demands… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Vivian’s first impression of Solidago was that she had travelled back in time, but not to a time where architecture had been… — Louise Blackwick Copy Share Image
“She gasped. “You know what your problem is? You don’t take yourself… or anything… seriously enough!” She sat rigidly, her teeth and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a fairly unwieldy set of concerns that go into determining what I do in the paintings, such as the history… — Philip Taaffe Copy Share Image
“[T]he ideals and desires of the majority define the structure of society as it is; a would-be mass movement that pursues a… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
What I resist is techniques. I find techniques very problematic. So when critics talk about my work in those terms, I find… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
It's time architects start designing for our ears as well as our eyes. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
“Like architects, researchers build models to represent the real world.” — Dahlia K. Remler Copy Share Image
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
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