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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles… — Charles Dallara Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
The U.K. has been at the forefront of developing the climate change policy architecture that can ensure climate action is integrated into… — Ed Davey Copy Share Image
In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come… — Pierre Nanterme Copy Share Image
What we need of equipment is this: let it possess as good a structure as the real-life content that surrounds us. We… — Berenice Abbott Copy Share Image
But just as elevators have changed the shape of buildings and cars have changed the shape of cities, bits will change the… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
