“Look deeply at yourself, and see in yourself the divine architect's incomprehensible art!” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic. — Joseph Altuzarra Copy Share Image
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
“It is a fundamental fallacy to think that our human bodies work like the structures that humans have built.” — Kaminoff, Leslie Copy Share Image
Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand. — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the… — David Allan Coe Copy Share Image
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture. — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of… — Roger K. Lewis Copy Share Image
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
“Black is my Power! I am Gold for Purple. Gold of my Wisdom as well as my wealth! Purple is my dignity.… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time… — Henry Spencer Copy Share Image
Beauty will result from the form and the correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with… — Andrea Palladio Copy Share Image
Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Insects influenced the shape of the Australian house. Some, like the white ant and lthe Lyctus borer, worked quietly and invisibly until… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
I love to be busy and be challenged. I'm my happiest when I'm under pressure and almost overwhelmed by how much I… — Aisha Tyler Copy Share Image
We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it… — Howard Mansfield Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry. — Denise Scott Brown Copy Share Image
Unity of plan everywhere lies hidden under the mask: of diversity of structure-the complex is everywhere evolved out of the simple. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“They needed to take action, make haste, embalm the dead town, dress the wounds of the sculptures, heal the sick windows, give… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I'm very interested in architecture. — John Rocha 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
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 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
“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
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
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist 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
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
