We try to make children problem-solvers. That gave birth to solar-heated mud buildings, using greenhouses to grow things and ice stupas -… — Sonam Wangchuk Copy Share Image
Some of my best friends are architects. And they definitely do have ears. But I think sometimes they don't use them when… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
Before 2000, everything was about being contextual, and buildings were supposed to be good citizens. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Surely, it's one of terrorism's intended effects, to literally stun our morale, to blow up strength and will along with buildings, and… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public… — Thomas L. Smith Copy Share Image
“An erect building is a shackled slave. I hear the mutinous grumbling of vertical buildings. I hear the grinding frustration of those… — Declan Burke Copy Share Image
I think that in a weird way, as technology gets more sophisticated, people have become less aware of it. It's become part… — Marco Brambilla Copy Share Image
The Tigris is so fierce and rapid, and swallows its alluvial banks so greedily, that it is probable that some of the… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop… — Joe Shuster Copy Share Image
Take the perspective of a journalist or scientist. Really study what's around you. What are people wearing, what do the interiors of… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Parents matter, buildings count, curriculum choices, materials, resources - all these things are important in a top-class education. But, in the end,… — Kimberly Quinn Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at individual buildings, it makes more metaphorical sense to think of New York as one enormous chunk of masonry… — Will Self 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
Academies can also flog off land and buildings, if the much weakened local authorities agree. Serious money can be made, management salaries… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes… — Michael Heizer Copy Share Image
Public buildings, built from the rates and taxes paid by past generations, are being auctioned off by impoverished councils who need the… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The sort of lifetime achievement stuff that I'm getting now is kind of like Tom Sawyer's funeral because they all know I'm… — Sam Simon 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
“The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every… — Victoria Kahler Copy Share Image
Archaeology can be overlooked as a discipline, I think, but it's incredibly important to have this other way of approaching the past… — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a… — Sebastiao Salgado 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
Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic… — Rick Renzi Copy Share Image
I was transformed by picking up a pair of binoculars and looking up, and that's hard to do for a city kid… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I'd love to go and visit the Mosque in Mecca again, just for the sheer beauty of it, not for God -… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
For carbon-neutral cities, there are things worth talking about in how our consumption patterns can change - sharing goods, etc. - but… — Alex Steffen Copy Share Image
Not even the most secular among us can fail to be uplifted by Christianity's architectural legacy - the great cathedrals. These immense… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
I come from Canada, and maternity leave is six months to a year, and they also have paternity leave, and I think… — Cobie Smulders Copy Share Image
New York used to be so much more than just a place to shop. It was life on the street for the… — Chris Noth Copy Share Image
Detroit is a city that really stands out. It's been through a very difficult time. There's been a lot of pain here,… — Michael Imperioli Copy Share Image
Chicago always hit me as such a gloomy place - I just remember all the snow getting dirty as soon as it… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
Good buildings make and are made by their settings, and they are appropriately different in different locations. Climate, culture, topography and materials… — Jaquelin T. Robertson Copy Share Image
Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating… — Alison Jackson 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
I don't like apartments - the idea of other people living, copulating and defecating above me - they make me feel as… — Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt Copy Share Image
“They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the… — Dale Carnegie 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 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
“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
True leaders don't invest in buildings. Jesus never built a building. They invest in people. Why? Because success without a successor is… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
