Most of our cities built since the war are bland. They're modernist, they're cold, and now architects want to go back to… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth. — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
I tell people I would like to have been an architect. I like the creative aspect of that. I like the idea… — Justin Rose Copy Share Image
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. — Harry von Zell Copy Share Image
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way… — Martin Puryear Copy Share Image
Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis. — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance… — Spencer Tunick Copy Share Image
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.… — Le Corbusier 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
I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
“… a move from the idea of an architect as expert problem-solver to that of architect as citizen sense-maker; a move for… — Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
Telco cloud and virtualization remain a clear priority for us, and we became the first vendor to supply a commercial telco cloud… — Rajeev Suri Copy Share Image
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
“Nobody can understand the greatness of the thirteenth century, who does not realize that it was a great growth of new things… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
New security architecture is being laid down in the Northern Middle East, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, in which pro-Iranian governments are consolidating their… — Joshua Landis Copy Share Image
What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architecture, the liturgy, the music, the art,… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
Architects are today routinely indoctrinated against the dumb box. Even advertising urges us to "think outside the box." Why? Because it is… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
“structure has been defined as ‘any assemblage of materials which is intended to sustain loads’, and the study of structures is one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I confront the city with my body; my legs measure the length of the arcade and the width of the square; my… — Juhani Pallasmaa Copy Share Image
I was good at football and cricket at school. My dad said, 'Son, be an architect,' and I came to Melbourne passionate… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
“Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being” — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I believe one should design for the advantage of the largest mass of people, first and always. That takes care of ideologies… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
My job the same as carpenter. What kind of house you want to build? What kind of food you want to make?… — Masa Takayama Copy Share Image
Tottenham are a very big club, big in structure. I'm impressed with this, and I'm happy to come here. — Lucas Moura Copy Share Image
The best kind of design isn't necessarily an object, a space, or a structure: it's a process- dynamic and adaptable. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The paintings have only ever been ways of exploring architecture. I don't see them as art. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Conscientious people like structure, so for them, a solution to immigration should be orderly, and a wall embodied that. — Christopher Wylie Copy Share Image
I'm a very tactile learner, so I need analog index cards, moving them all about, trying out various sequences for the book's… — Joshua Mohr Copy Share Image
“To express yourself in a creative way you don't need structure you need an empty mind.” — E'yen A. Gardner Copy Share Image
You see a lot of so-called architecture that part of the ego trip overpowers the functionality and the budget and all that… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
“Architects have to know everything there is to know about a space. You have to know its past and present. That way… — Kyung-sook Shin Copy Share Image
I'd rather be somewhere building a house, if I knew how. The whole idea of being a professional artist is like a… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop. — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
