The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of… — Zelda Fichandler Copy Share Image
A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
The most natural beauty in the world is honest and moral truth.for all beauty is truth. true features make the beauty of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You don't have to become a slave in a corporate office or groupie of a celebrity architect, because all you need is… — Raimund Abraham Copy Share Image
The American dream has always depended on the dialogue between the present and the past. In our architecture, as in all our… — Robert A. M. Stern Copy Share Image
The Arab who built himself a hut with marbles from the temple of Palmyra is more philosophical than all the curators of… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean's, and so is the architecture. This… — Donald Bren Copy Share Image
Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
“Even a brick wants to be something. A brick wants to be something. It aspires. Even a common, ordinary brick... wants to… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
You cannot have good architecture merely by asking people's advice on occasion. All good architecture is the expression of national life and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Thus by such victory, not by machines but in oppositions to the principle to the principles of machines, has the freedom of… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
We have to respond to budget concerns, we have to respond to functional and programmatic concerns of the building, and we have… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Zaha Hadid's Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid -… — Amanda Hearst Copy Share Image
The first thing that an architect must do is to sense that every building you build is a world of its own,… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
My favourite piece of architecture is the Royal Conservatory of Music on Bloor (273 Bloor Street West). When they cleaned up the… — Andy Barrie Copy Share Image
By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards - new architecture, design and… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Currently, I am overseeing the construction of the new Trump Tower in Chicago. I am involved in meeting with the construction crews,… — Bill Rancic Copy Share Image
Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there's no reason for it to be. I don't want to blame men or society, but… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
He who has not first laid his foundations may be able with great ability to lay them afterwards, but they will be… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost… — Steven Holl Copy Share Image
Our structure has always been two homes, and that's all my son has ever known. So you balance it. Make sure you… — Bridget Moynahan Copy Share Image
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Barcelona is a beautiful city. I love the buildings and the architecture and always enjoy being close to that. It makes sense… — Kim Bodnia Copy Share Image
I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the… — Ross Lovegrove Copy Share Image
When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do,… — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I studied to be an architect. And I find tremendous similarities between building a company and the design process. Businesses have to… — John Katzman Copy Share Image
Architecture is a technology. And it's involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture - including politics, economics,… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
The Germans were much more graphical. The expressionism is much more than cinema. It was a movement with artists, painters, music and… — Michel Hazanavicius Copy Share Image
The character of the architectural forms and spaces which all people habitually encounter are powerful agencies in determining the nature of their… — Hugh Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The house looked on to other tenement-like structures, experiments in architectural insignificance, that intruded upon a central concentration of buildings, commanding and… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 - you can't actually get to be commissioned… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down… — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
