Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“sketching out, like an architect, the plan of salvation to those that pleased Him.” — The Church Fathers Copy Share Image
“Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.” — James C. Snyder Copy Share Image
Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot… — Friedensreich Hundertwasser Copy Share Image
No structure, even an artificial one, enjoys the process of entropy. It is the ultimate fate of everything, and everything resists it. — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
“It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.” — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“This wasn't just a band of frustrated Egyptian architects in Hamburg. It was much bigger than that,. and had nothing to do… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics,… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects.… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
“Googie architecture could...be seen in its finest flowering among the essentially homogeneous and standardized enterprises of roadside commercial strips: hot-dog stands in… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
For corporations to be bedfellows with the arts is good business for both. The architecture that houses a company is a more… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that history is about everything. It isn't just about politics or the military or social issues. If art,… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“A recurrent theme of this book is that architects, fairly low in the chain of command and needing jobs, are prone to… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
In 500 years, English has changed a lot, and right now we're undergoing an extremely rapid rate of accelerated advancement in terms… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
When I was in architecture school, rather than giving us drafting boards and t-squares and lead pencils and stuff they gave us… — Joseph Kosinski Copy Share Image
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money. — Shahid Khan Copy Share Image
The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium. — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I did a comparison of a school of architects known as the New York Five. I compared their articulation of wall surfaces,… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don't just take… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce,… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability… — Mark Wigley Copy Share Image
It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The marvelous pharmacy that was designed by nature and placed into our being by the universal architect produces most of the medicines… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
It's most satisfying to have an effect on the public realm - deep down I think it's what every architect wants to… — Greg Lynn Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
