I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
Whatever comes to us in life we create first in our mentality. As the building is a reality in all its details… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into… — Nico Tortorella Copy Share Image
You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you… — Gregory Porter Copy Share Image
“Go drinking and come up with an idea and do it. I gave away the keys to the castle.” He doesn’t see… — Jeff Gordinier Copy Share Image
An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave… — Max Walker Copy Share Image
Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that… — Ian Hamilton Finlay Copy Share Image
My first architectural project I did, I must have been fifteen, was for neighbors across the street, a couple of school teachers,… — Emilio Ambasz Copy Share Image
Good information architecture makes users less alienated and suppressed by technology. It simultaneously increases human satisfaction and your company's profits. Very few… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big… — Jude Deveraux Copy Share Image
A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree… Whereas when buildings are of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Urban architecture would be reimagined around atomic survival to ensure a single bomb couldn’t do too much damage. They would be built… — Garrett M. Graff Copy Share Image
The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators,… — Mario Botta Copy Share Image
There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices,… — Enid Nemy Copy Share Image
Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
“For example, they recently had a piece on a character--I think his name was Ambrosio D'Urbervilles--whose "design statement" was to stuff an… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest… — George E Hartman Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to Naperville. It's all cute, trendy and expensive, and filled with cookie-cutter Borg houses that assimilate you into upper-middle-class… — Robyn Bachar Copy Share Image
So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don't think… — James Polshek Copy Share Image
A true architect is not an artist but an optimistic realist. They take a diverse number of stakeholders, extract needs, concerns, and… — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation… — Pranav Mistry Copy Share Image
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me... the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I've worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn't operatic, but… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should… — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to… — Andy Clark Copy Share Image
If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led… — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’.… — Richard Saul Wurman Copy Share Image
When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
Architects should be educated, skillful with the pencil, instructed in geometry, know much history, have followed the philosophers with attention, understand music,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of… — Anthony Holden Copy Share Image
I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
