Abstract Quote by Ellen Gallagher

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out…

— Olivier Theyskens

“Conventional histories of architecture talk about style, and the uniqueness of buildings as though they are art objects, like paintings, independent of their context.…

— Wade Graham

The design of a city is like a strange archeology.

— Jaime Lerner

“The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness. Sometimes, therefore, a door opens onto a hallway impossibly, and the…

— John Updike

“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening inside of…

— John Green

“Urban architecture would be reimagined around atomic survival to ensure a single bomb couldn’t do too much damage. They would be built in new…

— Garrett M. Graff

“The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and…

— Sverker Sörlin

As architects we are often involved in the concrete-steel-and-glass aspect of it, but cities are social structures, and to be involved in imagining the…

— Michael Arad

“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put…

— Bill Hillier

Cities and landscapes are illustrations of our spiritual and material worth. They not only express our values but give them a tangible reality. They…

— Leon Krier

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

— Jane Hirshfield