I believe that dance was the first art. A philosopher has said that dance and architecture were the first arts. I believe… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
The architect holds much knowledge, but is not a specialist. Especially with the computer and technology, the amount of knowledge an architect… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
Cartoons are perhaps a bigger part of art than is generally realized, and they influence people in ways that are not always… — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and… — Christopher Alexander Copy Share Image
The great advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science or literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Color is a very critical thing. I've found that architects don't like colors. Engineers too. And so somebody has to stand in.… — John Hench 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
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
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
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 Worlds manmade Mega structures reminders us how resourceful we are if we want to get something done we usually can get… — Danny Maximus Copy Share Image
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the… — Michael Graves Copy Share Image
I like building and making things. I, perhaps, would like to try my hand at directing one day. Sometimes I fancy myself… — Matthew James Thomas Copy Share Image
I come from a long line of architects. I'm the only one who did not become an architect, but I've been around… — Kym Whitley Copy Share Image
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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