Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
I am somebody who has discipline in my life but I personally don't feel that there should be a lot of structure… — Sargun Mehta Copy Share Image
“Great education defies structure because it is always (always!) individualized, personalized, interactive, nimble, responsive and inspired.” — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine,… — Peter Levine Copy Share Image
One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more… — George Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
For the best building and planting...the architect and gardener must have some knowledge of each other's business, and each must regard with… — Gertrude Jekyll Copy Share Image
We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The House of Lords, architecturally, is a magnificent room, and the dignity, quiet, and repose of the scene made me unwillingly acknowledge… — M. E. W. Sherwood Copy Share Image
We spent the first night of our honeymoon in a country hotel, with Tudor architecture oak beams, and floors which sloped, of… — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
The US ... cultivates no origin or mythical authenticity; it has no past and no founding truth ... it lives in a… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth… — Steven Chu Copy Share Image
I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
“Design is a fundamental human activity, relevant and useful to everyone. Anything humans create—be it product, communication or system—is a result of… — Maggie Macnab Copy Share Image
A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co-creator… — Joseph Beuys Copy Share Image
The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I… — Philip Warren Anderson Copy Share Image
I like to work in a team. And for that you must have a structure that covers everything and that there is… — Raul Copy Share Image
Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting. — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
I always say that writing non-fiction versus writing fiction is a bit like architecture versus abstract painting. — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
“Command and control corporate structure is out. Collaboration, decentralization and empowerment of small groups and the human spirit is in and is… — Said Elias Dawlabani Copy Share Image
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly… — Roger Waters Copy Share Image
80% of the mistakes you will make in information architecture can be caught if you bring in a great usability expert from… — Roger Black Copy Share Image
I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
If structure does not tell us anything about function, it means that we have not looked at it correctly. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
