Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it's very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the… — NikkieTutorials Copy Share Image
If it wasn't for Durham Cathedral I probably wouldn't be an architect. I was taken there when I was about seven and… — George Clarke Copy Share Image
“Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's… — Nancy Lancaster Copy Share Image
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the… — Ron Eglash Copy Share Image
You can be as creative as you want to and build all these cool projects, but ultimately, if they're not successful and… — Coy Bowles Copy Share Image
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics,… — Bob Barr Copy Share Image
All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Today is just the beginning of Kepler. Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin… — Jen-Hsun Huang Copy Share Image
Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you… — Annabelle Selldorf Copy Share Image
Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can turn down some clients, but we've both… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
A person's life consists of a collection of events, the last of which could also change the meaning of the whole, not… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it… — Nathaniel Kahn Copy Share Image
Building becomes architecture only when the mind of man consciously takes it and tries with all his resources to make it beautiful,… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata… — Charles Correa Copy Share Image
I'm going to have to go with math. Even though that's one of my harder subjects, but it's one of the funnest.… — Sterling Beaumon Copy Share Image
I don't know any architects that I respect who don't have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Cinema is a kind of pan-art. It can use, incorporate, engulf virtually any other art: the novel, poetry, theater, painting, sculpture, dance,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
“This wasn't just a band of frustrated Egyptian architects in Hamburg. It was much bigger than that,. and had nothing to do… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
What's fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products.… — Oren Peli Copy Share Image
I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“-Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect. - And interest? -yes,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating… — Tony Scott Copy Share Image
The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Architects are 'dismissive' of the people who turn their designs into building. And indecisive clients who have read too many design magazines… — Ole Thorstensen Copy Share Image
The magic of life, of course, is not something that can be explained. Structures can only take us to the point where… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
All organizations start with a structure that looks like a dynamic solar system. They can be very fast, agile. They attract people… — John P. Kotter Copy Share Image
Architecture is inherently a totalitarian activity. One thing we hate about it is that when you design a space, you're probably designing… — Vito Acconci Copy Share Image
As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
As much as we may want to withdraw into a world of pure problem solving, we have to acknowledge that the most… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
