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
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I think structure is so deep in us. We put it in stories we tell our friends or in emails we write.… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school. — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. — Jan Gehl Copy Share Image
The architecture of my sister's thinking, now phantom. I fall down stairs that are nothing but air. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
“Design Thinking is about to connect ideas and methods from different areas of thought, in order to create new structures, new associations,… — Jose Betancur Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in structure, how multiple stories are assembled in different ways; that is what memory does as well. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The bias among architecture critics isn't against skyscrapers per se, but against the way in which their design is so heavily dictated… — Paul Goldberger Copy Share Image
“The Greeks had the greatest architectonic gifts. Every art has its climax at some point, and here architecture had its high point.… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
I still hope that the American system of checks and balances will ultimately prevent this man, Donald Trump, with his erratic political… — Martin Schulz Copy Share Image
The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
My dad just left high school in '69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took… — John Gourley Copy Share Image
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
“The success of the scaling-up process depends upon the fact that the conceptual integrity of each piece has been radically improved—that the… — Frederick P. Brooks Jr Copy Share Image
I think architecture could be understood as the construction of realities, or the construction of worlds. One of the reasons why architects… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of… — Wade Graham Copy Share Image
When we build ... let it not be for present delights nor for present use alone. Let it be such work as… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“On every project, there are always areas that everyone wants to shy away from due to either the political environment or a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Taj Mahal was built up by the Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, who wanted his beloved wife to be remembered by one and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Despite their claims to a purely scientific and reasoned approach, the relationship of Modernist architects to their work remained at base a… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I'm very interested in architecture. — John Rocha Copy Share Image
“It started to go wrong quite early, my relationship with Architecture” — Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800. — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Since it [architecture] is music in space, as it were a frozen music. — Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Copy Share Image