“Buckminster Fuller explained to me once that because our world is constructed from geometric relations like the Golden Ratio or the Fibonacci… — Einar Thorsteinn Copy Share Image
I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
As for myself, I'm attracted to venture into places with peeling paint, and areas that are crumbling a little bit. It makes… — Teresa Palmer Copy Share Image
What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that's the… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
For the first project I did in North America, I was asked as an artist, not as an architect, to collaborate on… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
If [a woman] insisted on becoming an architect, I would try to dissuade her. If then, she was still determined, I would… — Pietro Belluschi Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in an architecture of resistance - architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we… — Maya Lin Copy Share Image
In truth, the best long-term explanations about our ancient counterparts can be found in the paintings, sculpture, crafts, tools of utility, language… — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I… — Parker Stevenson Copy Share Image
Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a… — David Adjaye Copy Share Image
What's interesting in archaeology is that we always understand other cultures by digging up their cities; architecture is almost always a way… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
You have to organize, organize, organize, and build and build, and train and train, so that there is a permanent, vibrant structure… — Ralph E. Reed, Jr Copy Share Image
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks… — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment.… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
On Church: Church wasn't designed by an architect (Technically, Jesus was a carpenter.). So why do we think of churches as buildings… — Dillon Burroughs Copy Share Image
Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same… — Rafael Vinoly Copy Share Image
Live action writers will give you a structure, but who the hell is talking about structure? Animation is closer to jazz than… — Ralph Bakshi Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability… — Adam Savage Copy Share Image
Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which… — Matthea Harvey Copy Share Image
“The architecture of the exhibit reflects the product's brand values, with its form, the tactile qualities of the materials, and the sound… — Philip Hughes Copy Share Image
I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York,… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
The science of design, or of line-drawing, if you like to use this term, is the source and very essence of painting,… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because… — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
I actually wanted to be an architect when I was a kid, but I did a solid geometry course where we had… — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris,… — Christian de Portzamparc Copy Share Image
It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko… — Julian Barratt Copy Share Image
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I… — Antoine Predock Copy Share Image
We literally see things so differently, all the architecture and stuff. That's the cool part about skateboarding. We're out there skating stuff… — Nyjah Huston Copy Share Image
It is hard not to see into the future, faced with today's blind architecture - a thousand times more stupid and more… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday,… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We owe it to the fields that our houses will not be the inferiors of the virgin land they have replaced. We… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as… — Brander Matthews Copy Share Image
“A building is not a sentence, which in principle has the ability to match and express a thought closely. It is not… — Rowan Moore Copy Share Image
The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man.… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
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