“I thought I was looking at a building at first: that it was some kind of tent, as high as a country… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Plays are architecture, and you can make them stand in many ways that are hard to describe. And, I think, in our… — Sarah Ruhl Copy Share Image
What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The most important thing, in order to forge one's own creative personality, is to travel, to see different environments, different cultures. I… — Shigeru Ban Copy Share Image
Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
There is a system and a flow and an organization to the structure of the universe. Just like there's a system and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I see her body as an arousing work of architecture. A sky-scraping building that I wouldn’t mind laying over a mountain to… — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics… — John Scott Copy Share Image
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
As with any art, you create it [drumming] out of something that isn't there. It's very architectural. It's the architecture of whatever… — Max Weinberg Copy Share Image
Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we… — Victor Papanek Copy Share Image
A new, self-employed architect scientist is the one in all the world who may accelerate realization of a high-standard survival for all,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Architecture is shaped by human emotions and desires, and then becomes a setting for further emotions and desires. It goes from the… — Rowan Moore Copy Share Image
About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
I am very interested in architecture. I've been asked if I'd ever direct, but me, I'd rather build. It's very similar to… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do… — Jean Nouvel Copy Share Image
Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and to an… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Some architects think of clients only as sources of work and income but most good architecture is in fact the result of… — Roger K. Lewis Copy Share Image
With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything,… — Arne Jacobsen Copy Share Image
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I didnt know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I dont even think that I knew the word… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme… — Taylor Schilling Copy Share Image
Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected,… — Sydney, Lady Morgan Copy Share Image
Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
In New York, the impact of these concentrated superskyscrapers on street scale and sunlight, on the city's aniquated support systems, circulation, and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is… — Nate Lowman Copy Share Image
In a way, the whole notion of a blueprint of a building is not that different from a script for a movie.… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway… — Roy Landau Copy Share Image
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
We Are The True Architects Of Our Lives. Only We As Individuals And Individuals Alone, Carry Within Us, The Inner Ability To… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture,… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Australia's is a special kind of philistinism, an immovable materialism which puts art and ideas of any kind deliberately and firmly to… — Robin Boyd Copy Share Image
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings,… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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