Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
Though builders may build, in the main they follow the plans of architects. Teachers teach, but they must have a text. Politicians… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“It was a weird mélange of alien architectures, as if these were buildings snatched at random from all times and places and… — Paul Magrs Copy Share Image
My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
I hope that America as a whole, and especially its architects, will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't think I have a signature style that announces, 'This is a Safdie.' But I think star architects have seized an… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture… — Clayton M. Christensen Copy Share Image
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
I didn't even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford - apart from the fact I had… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
A Trump presidency - neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
I think we need to question this idea that architecture is about making buildings. Actually, a building is about the most expensive… — Suman Rai Copy Share Image
Good architecture is still the difficult, conscientious, creative, expressive planning for that elusive synthesis that is a near-contradiction in terms: efficiency and… — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I have an architecture degree; that's what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development… — Jonathan Hickman Copy Share Image
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendencies—mapping, charting, and architecture—to try and… — Julie Mehretu Copy Share Image
I just want to make my last demand in reverence to the work of what has been done by architects of the… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film - whether… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Our lives are complex; our emotions are complex; our intellectual desires are complex. I believe that architecture … needs to mirror that… — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
“British philosopher Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth-century conception of the Panopticon, a building design he believed would allow institutions to effectively control human behavior.” — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to… — C. J. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I love medieval cities; they do not clamor for attention; they possess their souls - their riches - in quiet; formal, courteous,… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens.… — Limahl Copy Share Image
I viewed the station as a place, a terrain where I could put a new architecture in place. The station was, of… — Gae Aulenti Copy Share Image
“Perhaps that is the most important architectural principle of all when it comes to houses of worship: It is not the size,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But good information architecture can do more than just help people find objects and information. It can empower people by making it… — Donna Spencer Copy Share Image
“The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past,… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
I'm convinced Apple has been doing the core/clock speed architecture right, while other OEMS are more caught up in this core count… — Marques Brownlee Copy Share Image
Type is one of the most eloquent means of expression in every epoch of style. Next to architecture, it gives the most… — Peter Behrens Copy Share Image
I would hope that the Government would still support those small, struggling independent theatre companies and also maybe look to the built… — Adrian Dunbar Copy Share Image
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture,… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
A job the artist does which no-one else does is to dismantle existing communication codes and to combine some of their elements… — Victor Burgin Copy Share Image
I am sometimes visited by the heretical thought that there is no such thing as good and bad architecture, any more than… — John Updike Copy Share Image
