In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I've got a design for an airship in my head, which I'm going to play around with. I've got ideas for buildings… — Edd China Copy Share Image
Instead of making grand structures and beautiful buildings, we should focus on the environment and the urban space and how you encourage… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and… — Miguel McKelvey Copy Share Image
I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own. — Boyd Holbrook Copy Share Image
“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of… — Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen Copy Share Image
Modern buildings have become memorials to power and capital. More and more, they're isolated from people. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a… — Foster Friess Copy Share Image
When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because,… — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
I never intended to go to Broadway. I was very happy being in an Off Broadway theater and having an Off Broadway… — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down… — Alan Patricof Copy Share Image
A war, with its attendant human suffering, must, when that evil is unavoidable, be made to fragment more than buildings: It must… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I want my buildings to take root and look as if they've always been there. It isn't about pastiche or adapting what's… — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A construction of girders that carry the weight, and… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Once I tried to make a standardization of staircases. Probably that is one of the oldest of the standardizations. Of course, we… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings… — Bernard Arnault Copy Share Image
With Mtn Dew Game Fuel, I'm flying off buildings and hitting 360 snipes with more precision than ever. — Dr. Disrespect Copy Share Image
I'm particularly interested in the public role that all buildings play. I believe that we architects should try to go beyond our… — Cesar Pelli Copy Share Image
I think Tokyo is going to sink under water soon. All those stupid high-rise buildings will sink and maybe all the traffic… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
When I first came to New York City, what I was thrilled about was not the Empire State Building, or the Statue… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
I don't like Johannesburg, where I grew up. Everybody lives in 'gated' buildings, is paranoid about crime and is always talking about… — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
“The structure of life I have described in buildings - the structure which I believe to be objective - is deeply and… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like… — Mario Botta 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
If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you… — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
It was when '21' came out. I was in Los Angeles and my face was everywhere: on buses, on posters, on the… — Jim Sturgess Copy Share Image
Braddock looks every bit the deserted battlefield it truly is: 90 percent of our town's people, buildings, businesses, and homes are gone… — John Fetterman Copy Share Image
The future of design is a future where anything material in the environment - whether it's wearables, cars, buildings - can be… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
We wanted a world that looked like our world. In the original 'Flintstones,' low flat buildings filled the city and suburbs. Now,… — William Hanna Copy Share Image
Architects design buildings; that's what we do, so we have to go with the flow; and, even though I'm still an old… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
I studied at a time when buildings were sterile things, and their creators were hands-off people - super-intelligent people, but you felt… — Thomas Heatherwick 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
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
The bottom line may be that my inventing buildings is, indeed, a very private kind of activity. But it's done to be… — Peter Zumthor Copy Share Image
In 1964, when we first arrived in New York City, I remember vividly seeing the skyline of Manhattan, and our first proposal… — Christo Copy Share Image
In my opinion, further consideration of those views will help us find a way out of the current impasse, and reveal to… — Kenzo Tange Copy Share Image
Often, architects work too hard trying to make their buildings look different. It's like we're actors let loose on a stage, all… — David Chipperfield Copy Share Image
Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need… — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles,… — Don Kardong Copy Share Image
