One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city — Aldo Rossi 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
What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
In Europe, architects consider themselves artists. They think they're special when they win a competition. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination. — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
A structure is a bit like a story. People will go along with you - they see where you're going. — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
I love '70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. — Alexandre de Betak Copy Share Image
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development. — Isabella Lovin Copy Share Image
The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's based on wonder. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I have a very strong sense of architecture in my novels. But at first it's sometimes like building a doorknob before you… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Architecture is not about building the impossible, which we can do if we have enough money and enough tools and enough computers.… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
When I was young, I wanted to be a movie star. But I realized that you have no control being an actor.… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Think not of yourself as the architect of your career but as the sculptor. Expect to have to do a lot of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts… — Bill Hillier Copy Share Image
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In Canada an ordinary New England house would be mistaken for the château, and while every village here contains at least severalgentlemen… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
“structure has been defined as ‘any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads’, and the study of structures is one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my… — Juhani Pallasmaa 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
Chicago's downtown seems to me to constitute, all in all, the best-looking twentieth-century city, the city where contemporary technique has best been… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image