If the structure does not permit dialogue the structure must be changed — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
Consistent physical structures can allow unbounded intuitive clarity. — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
I'm in love with corrugated iron buildings, especially chapels and churches. — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
When the materials are all prepared and ready, the architects shall appear. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Meccano gives boys the secrets of the world's wonderful engineering structures. — Frank Hornby Copy Share Image
Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Generally, the modeler should look for natural boundaries of the system to capture the most important and impactful structure.” — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It's just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
“If only people realized Corbusier is pure nineteenth century, Manchester school utilitarian, and that's why they like him.” — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change. — Samuel Mockbee Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture. — Jake Barton Copy Share Image
The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
Fashion is an archetype: you're trying to build a silhouette, and that is very similar to building up a building because you're… — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
“What are you thinking?” he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone. “That the city looks different depending on whom I’m seeing it… — Jessica Hawkins Copy Share Image
For one who feels compelled, as I do, to accept the existence of the Master Architect, it is important to examine his… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
I think I needed to really move past my first public work as memorialist, and be equally balanced. It's a bit unusual,… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
“I’m at architecture school at UCLA.” “Ooooh, I love architects. They have such big buildings.” Oh Lord, let the floor open up… — Valerie Thomas Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It's also… — Marcus Brigstocke Copy Share Image
“In the 1980s, worried professionals began to come together to compare notes and create visions of new ways of living that would… — Bella DePaulo Copy Share Image
As an architect it is very important that you distinguish between different realities. There's the reality of the drawing and the reality… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Architecture is not so much a knowledge of form, but a form of knowledge. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. — Robert Smithson Copy Share Image
In the U.K., architects train for five years, and they spend one day on sound. — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
You are the architect of the memories that others will have about you. — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
