The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
Architecture remains a passion and a subject I'm very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of:… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
I believe that sensory pleasure should take precedence over intellectual pleasure in art and architecture. — Bernard Rudofsky Copy Share Image
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
I never plan a structure. I like surprises. I'm quite disciplined and sit at my desk every day and just write. — Jenny Downham Copy Share Image
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of… — François-René de Chateaubriand Copy Share Image
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“An architectural style is a coordinated set of architectural constraints that restricts the roles/features of architectural elements and the allowed relationships among… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
“A creative America has walls for structure but no ceilings at all. The doors and windows always stay open. No member who… — Ashfaq Ishaq Copy Share Image
In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked… — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
Layering and changeability: this is the key, the combination that is worked into most of my buildings. Occupying one of these buildings… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
I had a lot of fantasies about being an architect when I was young, and I think I still do. On a… — Tom Burr Copy Share Image
I cannot pursue my architecture without considering the minimization of energy consumption, simple and direct technologies, a respect for site, climate, place… — Glenn Murcutt Copy Share Image
“Architecture’s most kissable aspect is its surface. Space is hard to get a hold on. Structure has historically been inadequately pliant. Geometry—well,… — Sylvia Lavin Copy Share Image
Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
“The first treatise on the interior of the body, which is to say, the treatise that gave the body an interior ,… — Mark Wigley Copy Share Image
I got addicted to the hands-on problem-solving through the process of making or designing something. Architecture school was really influential and amazing. — Evan Sharp Copy Share Image
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
If you were a son of mine, I wouldn't want you to be an architect, because it's a tough way to be… — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
“Now we have come to the end of the part about structure. However, it occurs to me to say more about structure.” — John Cage Copy Share Image
The show is called 'The Office,' and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important. — Brian Baumgartner Copy Share Image
The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Modern man has lost the sense of wonder about the unknown and he treats it as an enemy.” — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process. — Francisco Costa Copy Share Image
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
You don't need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure. — Pamela Anderson Copy Share Image
To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No,… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I really love Miami, but I don't think the architecture matches the city. It's a bit too commercial. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
