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
Work organizes life. It gives structure and discipline to life. — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye. — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“A configuration is the structure of architectural relationships among components, connectors, and data during a period of system run-time.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
“Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.” — Josh Gates Copy Share Image
A languid janitor bears His lantern through colonnades And the architecture swoons. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“We’re too absorbed in communicating among ourselves to worry about an almighty architect.” — Kathy Reichs Copy Share Image
No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Each museum is different - the collection is different, the context is different, the relationship between the art and architecture is different. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think… — James Polshek Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
Literary lineage is part of your autobiography. The authors are the literary base, the image base, the character base that you bring… — David Biespiel Copy Share Image
Order is a necessary condition for making a structure function. A physical mechanism, be it a team of laborers, the body of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
“Learning to treat people with respect, and learning give them the benefit of the doubt, is one of the core skills that… — Richard Monson-Haefel Copy Share Image
In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could… — James Watkins Copy Share Image
Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to… — Andrew Lloyd Webber Copy Share Image
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert... I don't live inside buildings because buildings are dead places where nothing grows, where water… — Eustace Conway Copy Share Image
The world of shapes, lines, curves, and solids is as varied as the world of numbers, and it is only our long-satisfied… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“It was a delicate task, too, for the danger was twofold: on the one hand not to restore would mean losing precious… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“But I now leave my cetological System standing thus unfinished, even as the great Cathedral of Cologne was left, with the crane… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of… — Theo van Doesburg Copy Share Image
Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or… — Robert Christopher Riley Copy Share Image
“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate. — Appius Claudius Caecus Copy Share Image
“We are not the stuff that abides, but patterns that perpetuate themselves.” — Norbert Wiener Copy Share Image
To some extent I've always taken the architecture of the space into account. — Wade Guyton Copy Share Image
