The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture. — Grant Shapps Copy Share Image
I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel. — David Shields Copy Share Image
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior Copy Share Image
[There are] unseen objects that await us, if we as architects begin to think about designing not the object, but a process… — Michael Hansmeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. — Samuel Copy Share Image
Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
As architects we're trained to solve problems, but I don't really believe in architectural problems. I only believe in opportunities. — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
“In antiquity , for instance, one of the dominant images of the translators was that of a builder: his (usually it was… — Andrew Chesterman Copy Share Image
“We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry,… — Tom McDonough Copy Share Image
The bottom line for mathematicians is that the architecture has to be right. In all the mathematics that I did, the essential… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we… — John Herschel Copy Share Image
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic -… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
When the Americans are behind you, they're behind you 100%, and this gives you real confidence as an architect. They expect you… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
I studied Russian history at school, and I absolutely loved St Petersburg. It was magnificent - the architecture is incredible and has… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
The Gothic cathedral is a blossoming in stone subdued by the insatiable demand of harmony in man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
The Democrats are the architects of the mess we're in that we are trying to get out of, that we're trying extricate… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. — James Polshek Copy Share Image
Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture. — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles. — Quinlan Terry Copy Share Image
“The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines,… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the… — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
If a project has not achieved a system architecture, including its rationale, the project should not proceed to full-scale system development. Specifying… — Barry Boehm Copy Share Image
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I would never go to a place and live there because the weather was good or the scenery was beautiful or the… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
“The bungalow was a hideous red-brick structure built, if I had to guess, in the early 1980s by some hack architect who’d… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Success will only happen with Afghans leading the charge, and it is far, far more important for Kabul to create and support… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me,… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image