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That's what you have to find in architecture. You have to find your signature. When you find it, you're the only expert on it.… — Frank Gehry Copy Share Image
I'm not against architecture per se, I'm just against bad architecture. — Jonathan Meades Copy Share Image
Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking. — Moshe Safdie Copy Share Image
“The vital detail about the design is captured in the code. A well-written implementation should be transparent, revealing the model underlying it.” — Eric Evans Copy Share Image
“[...] you shouldn't be uneasy about any parts of the architecture. It shouldn't contain anything just to please the boss. It shouldn't contain anything… — Steve McConnell Copy Share Image
I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements that give an ineffable immaterial quality. — Toyo Ito Copy Share Image
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. — Leonard Baskin Copy Share Image
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Elevated locations imply elevated purposes, even in American cities departing as radically as Los Angeles does from the traditional planning patterns of the Eastern… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The danger for any artist whose work is both recognizable and critically acclaimed is complacent repetition - the temptation to churn out easily identifiable,… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Architectural kitsch is most common in the commercial pop vernacular - typified by the Big Duck of 1931 in Flanders, New York, a Long… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
One reason I've never been a fan of graphic novels is because a central aspect of literature for me has always been imagining what… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
During the modern period, the vanguard architect has usually relied on small residential jobs both to supply a steady income and to serve as… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the unpredictable revivals… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
Masterpieces of art possess immense potential to advance a worldview that could help assuage the societal terrors posed by globalization, the most thoroughgoing socioeconomic… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose.… — James Rouse Copy Share Image
In the end, it's clear that the incorporation of synthetic biology in product and architectural design will enable the transition from designs that are… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
“There are seemingly parallel origins of Nature’s God in America and China’s Mandate of Heaven. These twin concepts created socio-political forces for public good… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
All those involved in the construction of an architectural design, from the architect to the builder, have an attachment to the architecture, although it's… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“The goal of architectural design is to create an architecture with a set of architectural properties that form a superset of the system requirements.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
When you see a space for the first time, you aren't just thinking about how to decorate it, you are thinking of architectural design,… — Sussanne Khan Copy Share Image
“In his Dialogue "Timaeus" Plato had a demiurge to create the globe-shaped world according to musical laws, including the human soul. Fifteen hundred years… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
Reading was only part of the thrill that a book represented. I got a dizzy pleasure from the weight and feel of a new… — Debra Ginsberg Copy Share Image
The Japanese garden is a very important tool in Japanese architectural design because, not only is a garden traditionally included in any house design,… — E. J. W. Barber Copy Share Image
The Taj stands on a raised, square platform (186 x 186 feet) with its four corners truncated, forming an unequal octagon. The architectural design… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father was a master carpenter and builder. Architectural design, engineering design, mechanical design, three-dimensional views, that was my shtick, my forte. — Bobby Seale Copy Share Image