Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
You members of this Conference are to be the architects of the better world. In your hands rests our future. — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
If you have no intuitive sense of design, then call yourself an "information architect" and only use Helvetica. — David Carson Copy Share Image
Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors. — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name… — Russell Lynes Copy Share Image
There was nobody in the family who had ever done anything like that before. My brothers - I had two brothers. They… — Maggie Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Some architects, such as John Lautner, never really did anything other than houses. His entire portfolio is basically residential. There's nothing wrong… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
“Steiner's teachings begin and end with man but in between is humankind, the earth, the cosmos. Architecture is the same: it too… — Kenneth Bayes Copy Share Image
The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“Nothing man made was perfect. A partnership wasn't about being beautiful and adored...it was about incorporating the mistakes into the architecture and… — Suanne Laqueur 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
“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
There is always going to something very grounded about the characters I play, because of my Chicago roots, because the city is… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
When the functionality of a product or service overshoots what customers can use, it changes the way companies have to compete. When… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I got interested in set design for the theater. I was interested in architecture, but I was taking… — Neil Burger 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
At least 90 percent of my work is in situ. For me, it's not only to work with the architecture and space,… — Daniel Buren Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable monuments of architecture constructed by the Romans, how many have escaped the notice of history, how few have resisted… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
Teaching means creating situations where structures can be discovered. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
