We want our buildings to work like a machine that will create a pleasurable environment. — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories -… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a… — Bill Viola Copy Share Image
Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are… — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Route 192 is its own thing, and you can't find that anywhere else. The colors and shapes of the buildings, the way… — Sean Baker Copy Share Image
As a child, I used to have a secret dread - and a recurring nightmare - of the whole world becoming city,… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
I like performing the martial arts scenes in films to whatever extent they will allow me to, which most of the time… — Katy O'Brian Copy Share Image
My first buildings, when I was about 30, were rejected for aesthetic reasons. — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for… — Ueli Gegenschatz 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
Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
“The carved stone sign in front read Building C. Imaginative title, Langdon thought” — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
I personally will never forget that people are more important than buildings. — Harvey Milk Copy Share Image
Muscat itself is a mixture of impersonal modern buildings, shopping malls, mosques, traditional souks, tarmac and sand. — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings... it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
I spent the majority of time at school trying to break the rules. I would climb to the top of buildings; I… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I like to study culture and buildings and it's something I do on tour. — Juan Martin del Potro Copy Share Image
Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
It's easy to say why I love coming to Chicago for my signings, because I still remember the very first time I… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Many of our buildings have large format murals that are of varying subject matter, and we've found that those are the sort… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because,… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
I don't like landscapes. I like cities. Lots of cities. I like buildings. I like streets. — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly… — Michael J. Knowles Copy Share Image
