Arrangements Quote by James Howard Kunstler

We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore…

— James Howard Kunstler

Today, when so much seems to conspire to reduce life and feeling to the most deprived and demeaning bottom line, it is more important…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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

Our house was a place where you were welcome to make an idiot out of yourself. Silliness was valued. My dad worked with foster…

— Ty Burrell

New buildings should fit naturally into their surroundings, both architecturally and historically, without denying or prettifying the concerns of our time

— Gottfried Bohm

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

There is one timeless way of building. It is a thousand years old, and the same today as it has ever been. The great…

— Christopher Alexander

Historically, in the world of architecture, enormous amounts of care and energy have been lavished on things that are almost a cliched idea of…

— Thomas Heatherwick

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people…

— Bjarke Ingels

“Someone, he added, ought to draw up a catalogue of types of buildings listed in order of size, and it would be immediately obvious…

— W.G. Sebald

In New York, you have thousands of buildings that have never been renovated, that have horrible designs, that are really cramped and terrible.

— Miguel McKelvey

I'm very interested in buildings that have meaning for a particular place. I suppose it feels slightly rude to me if the imposed style…

— Thomas Heatherwick