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
Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive. — Henry David Thoreau 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
The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture. — Helmut Jahn 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
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
“I see her body as an arousing work of architecture. A sky-scraping building that I wouldn’t mind laying over a mountain to… — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever… — Max Weinberg Copy Share Image
Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don't count. So if I lose… — Mukesh Ambani Copy Share Image
“I saw cities, and roads of marvelous construction. I saw cruelty and greed, but I've seen them here too. I saw a… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did… — Glenn Ligon Copy Share Image
“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
You could say that my aim is ‘to recover the place’. The place is a result of nature and time; this is… — Kengo Kuma Copy Share Image
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the… — Alvin Lustig Copy Share Image
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
Better use of space, improving the insulation, getting more daylight into the buildings, reducing the energy consumption of the air conditioning and… — Ken Yeang Copy Share Image
“Great education defies structure because it is always (always!) individualized, personalized, interactive, nimble, responsive and inspired.” — Oliver DeMille 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
The Frank Matcham theaters in the West End in particular are incredible pieces of architecture. — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
I really wanted to study with Bruce Goff [one of the masters of "organic architecture"] at the University of Oklahoma. — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I bought a former library, not because I have a lot of books, but also I like architecture, and it was built… — Udo Kier Copy Share Image
But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer… — Stephen Sprouse Copy Share Image
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin Copy Share Image
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
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
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