Normally, architects render a service. They implement what other people want. This is not what I do. I like to develop the… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
“Thus nature provides a system for proportioning the growth of plants that satisfies the three canons of architecture. All modules are isotropic… — Jay Kappraff Copy Share Image
The day I went to see my father to say I wanted to become an architect, he was a bit surprised, because… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
I realized the structure in a collection is how they're put together. Structuring the collection became the art of it for me.… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
Blockchain technology isn't just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture… — Abigail Johnson Copy Share Image
“this architect who everyone misunderstands. I completely forget to ask what she and Charlene are going to laugh about. One evening Mama… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Throughout history, from Abyssinians and Greeks onward, artists, sculptors, and architects have worked together. I find this post - World War II… — Peter Marino Copy Share Image
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The American who has been confined, in his own country, to the sight of buildings designed after foreign models, is surprised on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back… — James Stewart Copy Share Image
Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll… — Jeremy Renner Copy Share Image
Today the arts exist in isolation, from which they can be rescued only through the conscious, cooperative effort of all craftsmen. Architects,… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Copy Share Image
Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded.… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
“The measure of its nobility and its continuity is its depth of feeling and its sincerity. And if it has that quality,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A mental image gives you a framework upon which to work. It is like the drawing of the architect, or the map… — William Walker Atkinson Copy Share Image
Through it all there is order and symmetry and a vision of what the completed edifice will be; a vision of a… — Margaret Wyvill Ecclesine Copy Share Image
“Particularly in the past fifty years the world has gradually been finding out something that architects have always known—that is—that everything is… — John Harwood Copy Share Image
“Yet though Americans have been driving up to their houses for decades and entering through backdoors, side doors, kitchen doors, and especially… — Akiko Busch Copy Share Image
As for philosophy, it makes an architect high-minded and not self-assuming, but rather renders him courteous, just, and honest without avariciousness. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts - understandably given the formative nature of the Bible… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it,… — William Devane Copy Share Image
I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books.… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
As observatory architect, my dad was partly concerned with the maintenance of them all. I used to go with him on site… — Jocelyn Bell Burnell Copy Share Image
If there's going to be another movement, another direction in architecture, it has to engage people differently. Other than saying, here, look… — Lebbeus Woods Copy Share Image
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Solemn Australians think that an interest in design is a superficial and trivial interest. This is actually an improvement, they used to… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
There is no ecological architecture, no intelligent architecture and no sustainable architecture - there is only good architecture. There are always problems… — Eduardo Souto de Moura Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a private affair; even a house must serve a whole family and its friends, and most buildings are used… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do… — Christopher Bailey Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us -… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation - the roads often closed in winter -… — Andrew Pyper Copy Share Image
