Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
The responsibility of an architect is to create a sense of order, a sense of place, a sense of relationship. — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that. — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
My younger brother is an architect, my son and his wife are both architects, they work for me, and so I guess… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity. — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it's still… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls;… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a… — Leon Krier Copy Share Image
As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
Companies and their brands need to reach out and speak directly to consumers, to honor their values, and to form meaningful relationships… — Simon Mainwaring Copy Share Image
“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening… — John Green Copy Share Image
To be an architect has been a life-long dream. Little did I know when asked at the age of 14 'what do… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I… — Robert Crumb Copy Share Image
The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about whats in style, whats current,… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
“Rules?" said Roark. "Here are my rules: what can be done with one substance must never be done with another. No two… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Ninety-eight percent are boxes, which tells me that a lot of people are in denial. We live and work in boxes. People… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Architects have big egos. We like to think we're creating the pyramids and they're going to be around for thousands of years.… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
Permaculture offers a radical approach to food production and urban renewal, water, energy and pollution. It integrates ecology, landscape, organic gardening, architecture… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
“the most important part of design is finding all the issues to be resolved. The rest are details” — Soumeet Lanka Copy Share Image
Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
The great challenge of the twentieth century ... is to create a new financial architecture in which private decisions produce a less… — Will Hutton Copy Share Image
Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. — Daniel Burnham Copy Share Image
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence. — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
The purpose of construction is TO MAKE THINGS HOLD TOGETHER; of architecture TO MOVE US. — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
Good design and talented architects can transform an ugly house on a relatively accessible and achievable budget. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
As an architect, you do not have control of who will build the building and who will have the capability. — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
“C.P. Office sees its particular product (buildings) as the readily recognisable parts of its continuous design process.” — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
