“I know I need to generate a structure full of holes so that I can always find a place for myself on… — Valeria Luiselli Copy Share Image
I learned to paint in a historical method. First through watercolours and then through oil. Then, when I went to college and… — James Ivory Copy Share Image
I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a… — Jeremy Podeswa Copy Share Image
The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
I realize that having a style would be very beneficial for my practice from a marketing standpoint, but I can't do it.… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“… a move from the idea of an architect as expert problem-solver to that of architect as citizen sense-maker; a move for… — Jeremy Till Copy Share Image
I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the… — James Pearse Connelly Copy Share Image
Telco cloud and virtualization remain a clear priority for us, and we became the first vendor to supply a commercial telco cloud… — Rajeev Suri Copy Share Image
Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
You look at energy use in the U.S. and one-third of it is automotive or our transportation system, one-third of it is… — Carol Ross Barney Copy Share Image
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
It is a critical job of any entrepreneur to maximize creativity, and to build the kind of atmosphere around you that encourages… — Anita Roddick Copy Share Image
It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You… — Renzo Piano Copy Share Image
“More even than the work of the great architects, I loved buildings that grew silently with the centuries, catching and keeping the… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“An architectural style is a coordinated set of architectural constraints that restricts the roles/features of architectural elements and the allowed relationships among… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the… — Cathy McMorris Rodgers Copy Share Image
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable.… — Nick Clegg Copy Share Image
I am inspired by music, travel, great architecture, and good, healthy food. I look for opportunities to learn about history, art, and… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and… — Catherine Stock Copy Share Image
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
I found myself starting architecture with a deep social, Jewish, liberal conscience, and the belief that architecture is for the people. It… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces. That is construction. Ingenuity is at work.… — Le Corbusier Copy Share Image
I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was… — Elizabeth Diller Copy Share Image
We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of 'the use.' Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
My ambition has always been to reduce a building's support to a minimum. The more we diminish supporting structures, the more audacious… — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
All comic books take place in built environments, and I was very good at drawing people and animals, and stuff like that,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I think you need to, as an architect, understand the essence of a place and create a building that feels like it… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and… — Cass Gilbert Copy Share Image
The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
There's a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I'm terrible at… — Eric Dane Copy Share Image
The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain… — John Green Copy Share Image
As much as the needs of fact, the needs of the spirit and the senses, must be satisfied. Architecture is as much… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Such was a poet and shall be and is -who'll solve the depths of horror to defend a sunbeam's architecture with his… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
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