# David Allan Coe

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

# John Portman

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

# Julia Morgan

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

# Frank Gehry

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

# Tadao Ando

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.

# Frank Lloyd Wright

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

# Daniel Libeskind

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

# Philip Johnson

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Less is more.

# R. Buckminster Fuller

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

# John Ruskin

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

# Walter Gropius

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

# Louis Kahn

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

# Winston Churchill

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

# Stephen Gardiner

Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design.

# Louis Sullivan

Form follows function.

# Jean Nouvel

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

# Alvar Aalto

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.

# Robert A. M. Stern

The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you’re talking about building a house, you’re talking about dreams.

# Toyo Ito

Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.

# Luis Barragan

I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

# Le Corbusier

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

# T. E. Lawrence

All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!

# Tadao Ando

When you look at Japanese traditional architecture, you have to look at Japanese culture and its relationship with nature. You can actually live in a harmonious, close contact with nature – this very unique to Japan.

# Thomas a Kempis

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

# Daniel Burnham

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.

# Philip Johnson

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

# Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I call architecture frozen music.

# Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

# Maya Lin

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That’s art to me.

# Richard Rogers

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we – architects – can effect the quality of life of the people.

# Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is – necessarily – a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

# Thomas Fuller

Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

# John Osborne

Don’t clap too hard – it’s a very old building.

# Louis Kahn

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

# Jim Rohn

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

# Arthur Erickson

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

# Luis Barragan

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

# Rem Koolhaas

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

# Adolf Loos

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

# Richard Rogers

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.

# Constantin Brancusi

Architecture is inhabited sculpture.

# Louis Sullivan

The building’s identity resided in the ornament.

# Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is invention.

# Ernest Dimnet

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.

# Stephen Gardiner

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

# Helmut Jahn

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

# Arthur Erickson

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

# Harry Seidler

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all.

# Daniel Libeskind

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

# Thom Mayne

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

# Yoshio Taniguchi

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

# Arne Jacobsen

Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.

# Julia Morgan

My buildings will be my legacy… they will speak for me long after I’m gone.

# Bryant H. McGill

Architects of grandeur are often the master builders of disillusionment.

# Vitruvius

Nothing requires the architect’s care more than the due proportions of buildings.

# Antoni Gaudi

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

# Ayn Rand

I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

# John Ruskin

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

# Martha Graham

To me, a building – if it’s beautiful – is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

# Minoru Yamasaki

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don’t go anywhere. They shouldn’t be restless.

# Donna Karan

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It’s about space and form and it’s something you can share with other people.

# Maya Lin

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don’t want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

# Helmut Jahn

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

# Robert Smithson

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.

# Ai Weiwei

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It’s a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

# Michael Graves

I don’t believe in morality in architecture.

# Arthur Erickson

Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it.

# Antoni Gaudi

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.

# John Portman

Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.

# Frank Stella

Architecture can’t fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn’t real.

# Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

# Guillaume Apollinaire

A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature.

# Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in.

# Henry David Thoreau

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

# Arne Jacobsen

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one’s entire life.

# Adolf Loos

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

# Voltaire

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

# Alvar Aalto

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

# Ayn Rand

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

# Richard Meier

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

# Enid Nemy

Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.

# Delia Ephron

In Los Angeles, by the time you’re 35, you’re older than most of the buildings.

# Alexander Jackson Davis

I am but an architectural composer.

# Kenzo Tange

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

# Russell Lynes

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

# Michael Ende

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

# Alexander Jackson Davis

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

# Harry Seidler

The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

# Martin Puryear

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

# Thom Mayne

I’m often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That’s impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.

# Harry von Zell

As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

# Michael Arad

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 future of cities and the type of relationships and the types of places that we’re making is something that intrigues me very much.

# James Rouse

For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.

# Saul Steinberg

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

# Stephen Gardiner

What people want, above all, is order.

# Bruce Jackson

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

# Gilbert K. Chesterton

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

# Samuel Butler

Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

# Audre Lorde

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

# Alvar Aalto

Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.

# Zaha Hadid

I don’t think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think.

# I. M. Pei

The essence of architecture is form and space, and light is the essential element to the key to architectural design, probably more important than anything. Technology and materials are secondary.

# Charles Jencks

Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several of its slab blocks, were given the final coup de grace by dynamite.

# David Chipperfield

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

# Bjarke Ingels

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

# Kenzo Tange

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

# Arne Jacobsen

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

# Christian Dior

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

# Zaha Hadid

Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It’s very tough.

# Cherie Lunghi

I enjoy art, architecture, museums, churches and temples; anything that gives me insight into the history and soul of the place I’m in. I can also be a beach bum – I like to laze in the shade of a palm tree with a good book or float in a warm sea at sundown.

# Daniel Wu

I graduated from university with a degree in architecture and then ended up doing a series of internships with different firms. And once I was in an office environment, I realized that at school what I was doing was 98 percent creative, 2 percent makework, but in the real world, it was the other way around.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

# Edwin Lutyens

There will never be great architects or architecture without great patrons.

# Walter Gropius

Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.

# Bernard Tschumi

The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed.

# John Lautner

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn’t architecture unless it’s alive. Alive is what art is. If it’s not alive, it’s dead, and it’s not art.

# Mario Botta

Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man.

# Rem Koolhaas

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

# Alvar Aalto

The ultimate goal of the architect…is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture… should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people.

# Rem Koolhaas

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

# Peter Eisenman

Architecture is definitely a political act.

# George Lucas

The secret to the movie business, or any business, is to get a good education in a subject besides film – whether it’s history, psychology, economics, or architecture – so you have something to make a movie about. All the skill in the world isn’t going to help you unless you have something to say.

# Abigail Johnson

Blockchain technology isn’t just a more efficient way to settle securities. It will fundamentally change market structures, and maybe even the architecture of the Internet itself.

# Christopher Wren

Architecture aims at Eternity.

# Tadao Ando

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move into the future.

# NikkieTutorials

Amsterdam is such a fun, cool place, and it’s very Instagrammable with the canals and the boats and the flowers and the architecture. It’s amazing for outfit of the day shots.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

# Roger Waters

I could have been an architect, but I don’t think I’d have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

# Philip Johnson

Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space.

# Bjarke Ingels

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It’s a means of making different life forms possible.

# Martin Mull

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

# Steven Holl

For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can’t in larger projects.

# Peter Eisenman

The problem with digital architecture is that an algorithm can produce endless variations, so an architect has many choices.

# Alice Roberts

You don’t need to go to Rome, Prague or Vienna to find wonderful architecture, amazing stories and suprising, hidden gems.

# Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

# Louis Kahn

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.

# Ruta Sepetys

New Orleans is unlike any city in America. Its cultural diversity is woven into the food, the music, the architecture – even the local superstitions. It’s a sensory experience on all levels and there’s a story lurking around every corner.

# Bernard Tschumi

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn’t impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

# Andre Leon Talley

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they’ve created these amazing churches.

# Rem Koolhaas

What is now called ‘green architecture’ is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

# Kelly Wearstler

I’m a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.

# Vitruvius

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.

# Kenneth Frampton

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

# Jason Silva

I’m not a religious person. But, when I look at a beautiful cathedral, what brings awe, what induces awe is the idea that architecture, you know, a beautiful cathedral, a beautiful building.

# Sydney Pollack

I mean, certainly writing, painting, photography, dance, architecture, there is an aspect of almost every art form that is useful and that merges into film in some way.

# Adolf Loos

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

# James Polshek

I’ve always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

# Salvador Dali

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

# Rem Koolhaas

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that’s both liberating and alarming.

# Steve Martin

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

# Michael Graves

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.

# Zaha Hadid

I’ve always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic – you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

# Walter Gropius

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.

# Stephen Gardiner

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

# Frei Otto

My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

# Charles Jencks

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

# Mario Botta

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

# Bjarke Ingels

I believe that architecture, as anything else in life, is evolutionary. Ideas evolve; they don’t come from outer space and crash into the drawing board.

# Santiago Calatrava

Architecture is a code. It’s a pure code, derived from the dimensions of nature.

# Zaha Hadid

Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people’s lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

# Sebastian Bach

Quebec City is the most European of any city in North America; they speak French all the time. There is a part of town called Old Quebec which is really like being in France. The architecture is just gorgeous, food, shopping. I’d say Quebec City is the most beautiful city in North America I’ve seen.

# Christian Louboutin

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

# Alvar Aalto

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is, at least for me, an abuse of paper.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

# Miriam Defensor-Santiago

In effect, the Internet is a global connection of interconnected computers. It has been described as truly a peer-to-peer system with many distributed nodes and no central point of control architecture.

# Antoine Predock

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film.

# Milton Friedman

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

# Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I founded a club, which is called the Brutally Early Club. It’s basically a breakfast salon for the 21st century where art meets science meets architecture meets literature.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time.

# Elizabeth Diller

Aside from keeping the rain out and producing some usable space, architecture is nothing but a special-effects machine that delights and disturbs the senses.

# Dan Brown

I’m somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

# Joni Mitchell

I see music as fluid architecture.

# Stephen Gardiner

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

# Hubert de Givenchy

Like in great painting and architecture, in couture, to make clothes you must eliminate, eliminate, eliminate to obtain the true sense of a line. You see, the more you add, the more you load on, the more it’s mad. You must try to have just the silhouette, which is an intelligence in clothes.

# John Irving

The building of the architecture of a novel – the craft of it – is something I never tire of.

# Moshe Safdie

Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

# Patricia Marx

You don’t have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know that Shanghai is building nine satellite towns, each designed to mimic the architecture and culture of a different country?

# Richard Rogers

Architecture is about public space held by buildings.

# Luke Macfarlane

I live in a craftsman house, but I’m a big fan of modernist and mid-century furniture and architecture, too. But my dream is to do a truly original chair design, something that is all these different things but is my own, too.

# Philip Johnson

Architecture is art, nothing else.

# Ji Chang-wook

During high school, I wanted to work in architecture or engineering for no particular reason.

# Michael Graves

I have no requirements for a style of architecture.

# Thom Mayne

In architecture, you arrive so late. I look at doctors, lawyers I know, and they’re all buying boats and bailing out at 62. My career is just getting started.

# Bjarke Ingels

The ‘International Style of Modernism’ came with the advent of building services. In the end, the architecture became like a container space, essentially like a boring box with a basement full of machinery to make it inhabitable. As a result, buildings literally started to look identical all over the planet.

# Arthur Erickson

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

Leonard Mlodinow

Our subliminal mental processes operate outside awareness because they arise in these portions of our mind that are inaccessible to our conscious self; their inaccessibility is due to the architecture of the brain rather than because they have been subject to Freudian motivational forces like repression.

# Maya Lin

Art is very tricky because it’s what you do for yourself. It’s much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

# Frank Lloyd Wright

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

# Rudolf Steiner

Architecture produces a musical mood in our inner being, and we notice that even though the elements of architecture and music appear to be so alien in the outer world, through this musical mood engendered in us, our experience of architecture brings about a reconciliation, a balance between these two elements.

# Norman Foster

There’s a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it’s an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

# Coco Chanel

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

# Bayard Taylor

Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured flowers in the cloister arches are remarkably beautiful and delicate, and the two windows – the south and east oriels – are of a lightness and grace of execution really surprising.

# Peter York

By the late Nineties, we had become a more visual nation. Big-money taste moved to global standards – new architecture, design and show-off contemporary art. The Sloane domestic aesthetic – symmetry, class symbolism and brown furniture – became as unfashionable as it had been hot in the early Eighties.

# Joshua Bell

Good conductors know when to let an orchestra lead itself. Ninety percent of what a conductor does comes in the rehearsal – the vision, the structure, the architecture.

# Toyo Ito

We have to base architecture on the environment.

# I. M. Pei

In northern architecture – the cathedrals of Europe and all the little churches – the details, the carving of stone, become necessary because the light is not there to help you very much. You have to enrich surfaces. The desert reduces form to its simplest nature. There is no need for gargoyles or flying buttresses in the desert.

# Tadao Ando

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

# Richard Rogers

Architecture is always political.

# Frei Otto

Everything man is doing in architecture is to try to go against nature. Of course we have to understand nature to know how far we have to go against nature. The secret, I think, of the future is not doing too much. All architects have the tendency to do too much.

# Zaha Hadid

I really love Miami, but I don’t think the architecture matches the city. It’s a bit too commercial.

# Richard Rogers

Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future.

# James Watkins

In Zagreb, the Old Town really could be Prague. You go two hours to the coast to Opatija, and you really could be in the South of France, in the Croatian Riviera. And then you head down the coast towards Split, and you get into more Turkish architecture, so you can double Istanbul.

# Stephen Gardiner

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture; like Roman design, it looks to the community.

# Bjarke Ingels

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It’s more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

# Christopher Nolan

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reached through its proportions, and the proportions cost nothing. In fact, most of them are proportions among things, not the things themselves. Art is almost always a question of proportions.

# Renzo Piano

Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don’t read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years.

# Zaha Hadid

I think about architecture all the time. the problem. But I’ve always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

# Ma Yansong

The beauty of architecture is it involves work that stretches over a very long time but often starts in one instant, with just one emotion, a kind of instinctual response.

# Renzo Piano

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.

# Luis Barragan

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

# Edwin Lutyens

In architecture, Palladio is the game. It means hard thought all through – if it is labored, it fails.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative.

# Santiago Calatrava

The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it’s also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function.

# Herbert A. Simon

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent – not with how things are but with how they might be – in short, with design.

# Alvar Aalto

The very essence of architecture consists of a variety and development reminiscent of natural organic life. This is the only true style in architecture.

# Renzo Piano

In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years.

# Anne Fortier

Ever since childhood, I’ve been interested in history and myth. Not just the facts and figures of the past, but everything that contributes to shape our perception of an age: architecture, art, literature and so forth.

# Victor Hugo

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

# William Bennett

All real education is the architecture of the soul.

# Arne Jacobsen

If architecture had nothing to do with art, it would be astonishingly easy to build houses, but the architect’s task – his most difficult task – is always that of selecting.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

# Rudolf Steiner

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

# John Ruskin

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

# Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

# Nico Tortorella

I went to art school in Chicago for a year at Columbia College. I had this whole master plan of getting into sustainable development and green architecture and construction, so I wanted to go to business school and then get my masters in construction and development.

# Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

# Colleen Atwood

I like the architecture of lingerie.

# Frank Gehry

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art – or at least people call it that.

# Marc Newson

People kind of tend to mystify design and architecture by suggesting you need to train.

# Louis Kahn

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

# Magnus Larsson

Sand dunes are almost like ready-made buildings in a way. All we need to do is solidify the parts that we need to be solid, and then excavate the sand, and we have our architecture. We can either excavate it by hand, or we can have the wind excavate it for us.

# Tadao Ando

Japanese architecture is traditionally based on wooden structures that need renovating on a regular basis.

# Philip Johnson

The future of architecture is culture.

# Daniel Libeskind

Winning a competition in architecture is a ticket to oblivion. It’s just an idea. Ninety-nine per cent never get built.

# David Josiah Brewer

Oratory is the masterful art. Poetry, painting, music, sculpture, architecture please, thrill, inspire – but oratory rules. The orator dominates those who hear him, convinces their reason, controls their judgment, compels their action. For the time being, he is master.

# Quincy Jones

If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.

# Maya Lin

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

# Zaha Hadid

Architecture is particularly difficult for women; there’s no reason for it to be. I don’t want to blame men or society, but I think it was for a long time, the clients were men, the building industry is all male.

# Bjarke Ingels

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, ‘Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?’ Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Our utilitarian structures will mature into architecture only when, through their fulfillment of function, they become carriers of the will of the age.

# Jean Nouvel

I think architecture has to be a gift.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on facts, but its real field of activity lies in the realm of the significance.

# Thomas Reid

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

# Jeremy Renner

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you’ll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

# Christian de Portzamparc

Architecture has a strong link with the movies in terms of time progression, sequencing, framing, all of that.

# Alvar Aalto

Just as it takes time for a speck of fish spawn to develop into a fully grown fish, so, too, we need time for everything that develops and crystallizes in the world of ideas. Architecture demands more of this time than other creative work.

# Ernest Hemingway

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

# Antoine Predock

Architecture is a ride – a physical ride and an intellectual ride.

# Philip Johnson

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into – after all, you haven’t any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You’d be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line – how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

# Stefan Sagmeister

Downtown Toronto is a very good place to talk about the neutrality of modernist architecture. I’m sure this kind of box-building was interesting in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties, but I think it’s absolutely ridiculous to build like this in 2013.

# Harry Seidler

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

# Cesar Pelli

Architecture adds dimensions to my life that would be impossible to acquire if I retired. The beautiful thing about architecture is that every project is brand new. I am forced to renew myself with every project. Isn’t that wonderful?

# Trudie Styler

Tuscany is so full of history and beauty – you meet wonders of art and architecture on almost every corner. But I love the region’s homier aspects: the special sweetness of the tomatoes, the soft mozzarella, the heady scents of basil and garlic everywhere.

# Zaha Hadid

As a woman, I’m expected to want everything to be nice and to be nice myself. A very English thing. I don’t design nice buildings – I don’t like them. I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality.

# Peter Zumthor

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.

# Robert Palmer

Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it’s really difficult.

# Neri Oxman

I don’t separate architecture, design, or culture. What’s more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

# Santiago Calatrava

Architecture is one of the art forms best able to improve and revitalise cities both artistically and functionally.

# Frank Lloyd Wright

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

# Joshua Bell

The real architecture happens within the works themselves, and that was done by the composer. That’s where the real skill is. In putting together a program, you’re more a curator, but that’s important as well. And then the interpreting of it is where our big job is.

# Frei Otto

My architecture is the architecture of survival.

# Alan Bennett

I didn’t even have a clear idea of why I wanted to go to Oxford – apart from the fact I had fallen in love with the architecture. It certainly wasn’t out of some great sense of academic or intellectual achievement. In many ways, my education only began after I’d left university.

# Walter Gropius

The development of the New Architecture encountered serious obstacles at a very early stage of its development. Conflicting theories and the dogmas enunciated in architects’ personal manifestos all helped to confuse the main issue.

# Antoine Predock

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I’ll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I’ll exclaim, ‘This is architecture.’

# Dante Ferretti

I studied fine arts and architecture, but I decided to move into movie design because I grew up in a small town in the Marche region and spent a lot of time after school in the movie theater.

# Michael Graves

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it’s them I’m designing for.

# John Rocha

Dubai is a vibrant city: Big cars, big buildings… it reminds me of my home town, Hong Kong. People are always on the move here, and there’s a lot going on. There are some wonderful architecture and some not-so-wonderful.

# Neri Oxman

In the United States alone, 450 billion square feet of glass facade is produced every year. What if we could take this chance to use the glass to harness solar energy and allow the architecture to respond to the light and heat of the sun, to create photosynthesis and generate solar energy?

# John Ruskin

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

# Bernard Tschumi

The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar.

# James P. Gorman

The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules.

# Peter Eisenman

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

# I. M. Pei

It is good to learn from the ancients. I’m a bit of an ancient myself. They had a lot of time to think about architecture and landscape.

# David Chipperfield

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it’s about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you’re not sure if it’s good or bad but at least it’s interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

# Elizabeth Diller

We’re always taught that we’re building for permanence, but why? I like the idea of a prosthetic architecture! When a section is removed, the building readjusts its weight distribution, like a living body.

# Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there’s no music. Without rhythm, there’s no cinema. Without rhythm, there’s no architecture.

# Jack Dangermond

Landscape architecture is basically geodesign; it’s designing geography. And yet geodesign is not only done by landscape architects, it’s done by some of the world’s largest corporations.

# Mario Botta

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It’s like a skin or a skull, but you don’t know what’s inside.

# Gretchen Rubin

It was my interest in happiness that led me to the subject of habits, and of course, the study of habits is really the study of happiness. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life, and a significant element of happiness.

# Ma Yansong

I’m trying to create architecture as landscape. But I’m not copying nature.

# Jeff Bezos

The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.

# Sara Bareilles

Aesthetically, London is just beautiful; it’s a gorgeous city. The architecture, monuments, the parks, the small streets – it’s an incredible place to be.

# David Chipperfield

I don’t think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

# Zaha Hadid

Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.

# Peter Zumthor

I work a little bit like a sculptor. When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It’s not about paper, it’s not about forms. It’s about space and material.

# Piet Mondrian

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

# Moshe Safdie

Architecture has joined the world of fashion, but fashion is passing and architecture is timeless.

# I. M. Pei

To me, form doesn’t always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you’re dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it’s much more difficult because it has to have a function.

# Walter Gropius

Good architecture should be a projection of life itself, and that implies an intimate knowledge of biological, social, technical, and artistic problems.

# Tadao Ando

Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture.

# Bob Dylan

I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.

# Alvar Aalto

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.

# Frank Gehry

Liquid architecture. It’s like jazz – you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it’s a way of – for me, it’s a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city.

# Santiago Calatrava

I became a fanatic of the architecture of Le Corbusier and I visited almost all his buildings and read all his books. Only later on did I discover that all the things that impressed me in his books, particular his ideology, he had picked up from Auguste Perret.

# Robert Wilson

The first thing you must know as an actor or director is the space you will inhabit. See the architecture; imagine where things can happen in space.

# Arne Jacobsen

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

# Joshua Prince-Ramus

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don’t. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

# Thomas Heatherwick

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses.

# John Lautner

Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you’re seventy or eighty, you’re still beginning. So, that’s the kind of life I’ve preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.

# Gustav Stickley

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

# Richard Rogers

My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

# Richard Meier

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

# Louis Kahn

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

# Leon Krier

If a dictator takes up my ideas, the resulting town will survive the political system that commissioned it and stand as a social good. Besides, modernism rather than classicism has dominated the architecture of totalitarian regimes of both the left and right.

# Louis Kahn

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

# Alvar Aalto

Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.

# Magnus Larsson

I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I’ve also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.

# Santiago Calatrava

I don’t see any difference between architecture and engineering. It’s the same profession.

# Rudolf Steiner

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

# Frank Gehry

It’s not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

# Jo Nesbo

Until the Eighties, Oslo was a rather boring town, but it’s changed a lot, and is now much more cosmopolitan. If I go downtown, I visit the harbour to see the tall ships and the ferries, and to admire the modern architecture such as the Opera House or the new Astrup Fearnley Museum on the water’s edge.

# Lord Byron

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

# Ma Yansong

Architecture is about experience: not only visual but also what you can touch, what you can feel.

# Oscar Niemeyer

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

# Arne Jacobsen

And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture.

# Vera Wang

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

# Thom Mayne

The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.

# Bjarke Ingels

One of the dilemmas of architecture in general is that there is a Catch-22 – you can’t actually get to be commissioned to do certain types of building until you’ve already built that type of building. So it seems to be incredibly hard to get going.

# Kenzo Tange

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

# Thomas Bailey Aldrich

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.

# Stephen Karam

In writing ‘The Humans,’ I obsessed over the financial district and the architecture.

# Zaha Hadid

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. –

# I. M. Pei

Modern architecture needed to be part of an evolutionary, not a revolutionary, process.

# Renzo Piano

I came to architecture from building. Because my father was a builder, everybody was – and is – a builder in my family.

# Michael Mandelbaum

If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.

# Eric Dane

There’s a very mathematical, mechanical side to architecture, and I probably lean more toward that aspect of it, though I’m terrible at numbers. But that side appeals to me more than the decorating aspect.

# Tadao Ando

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

# Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture is my work, and I’ve spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

# Havelock Ellis

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

# I. M. Pei

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

# Rem Koolhaas

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

# Ian Mckellen

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend… they can all go drifting by unseen if you’re not careful.

# Jay Chiat

The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams.

# Michael Graves

The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.

# Denis Villeneuve

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

# Philip Treacy

There’s a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it’s like architecture or mathematics.

# Maya Lin

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it’s magical.

# Bill Gates

The common thread for everything I do is this idea of a Web-services architecture. What does that mean? It means taking components of software and systems and having them be self-describing, so that you can aim them, ask them what their capabilities are, and communicate with them using a standard protocol.

# Frank Gehry

Chicago’s one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

# Ma Yansong

What if we treat the high-rise like a mountain, or we have gardens in the sky, or waterfalls? I think that’s the most challenging thing I want to try in my architecture.

# Prue Leith

My husband John’s and my breaks are often very culture heavy. He cannot pass a museum without venturing inside, so we tend to see a lot of architecture and so-called places of interest.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

It must be understood that every architecture is bound to its time and manifests itself only in vital tasks and through the materials of its age. It has never been otherwise.

# P. J. O’Rourke

Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form.

# David Chipperfield

A building is no good if someone’s got to explain to you why it’s good. You can’t say you don’t know enough about architecture – that’s ridiculous. It’s got to work on many levels.

# Francois Nars

I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines.

# Virgil Abloh

For me, as I was growing up, I studied architecture, I was into music, and I always felt that there was a gap between the things that I loved and consumed and who made them and how they made them.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.

# Robert Wilson

I’ve always been attracted to classic patterns in architecture, music and drama.

# Jack Dangermond

I think it is widely agreed that Carl Steinitz, over the 50 years he taught at Harvard, has been one of the most important figures in influencing the theory and practice of landscape architecture and the application of computer technology to planning.

# Toyo Ito

I would like to use architecture to create bonds between people who live in cities, and even use it to recover the communities that used to exist in every single city.

# Chelsea Cain

I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins and central markets and even double-decker bus tours. But, I am a sucker for a tropical beach.

# Nate Berkus

You don’t need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

# Peter Marino

There’s a very important aspect to all my work, now more than ever, which is tying the interior design and architecture with the art.

I grew up in a modernist house, in a modernist culture. There was a love for modernism everywhere – the furniture, the books, the food, even the cutlery. So I learned very early to appreciate the value of design and the value of architecture.

# Elizabeth Diller

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women’s movement.

# Mark Kurlansky

Chroniclers of the role of paper in history are given to extravagant pronouncements: Architecture would not have been possible without paper. Without paper, there would have been no Renaissance. If there had been no paper, the Industrial Revolution would not have been possible. None of these statements is true.

# Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all.

# Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

# Ernest Hemingway

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

# Greg Lynn

To go back to architecture, what’s organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

# Arthur Erickson

Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

# Cathy McMorris Rodgers

If you look at the architecture of Washington, D.C., it is not by mistake that the dome over the Capitol is the very center of the federal city. The White House and the Supreme Court are set about us, satellites to the supreme power of the people expressed in the legislative authority of Congress.

# James Polshek

I had it drummed into me from an early age that personalizing everything was not a good thing. Besides, I don’t think that kind of commodity-driven system makes for the most productive architecture.

# Bjarke Ingels

I wanted to be a cartoonist, but there was no cartoon academy. So I enrolled in the Royal Danish Art Academy School of Architecture. But then I really got smitten by architecture.

# George Hickenlooper

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

# Hayden Christensen

I don’t find Hollywood interesting, so I’m thinking of studying architecture instead.

# Kenzo Tange

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

# Nancy Banks Smith

In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it’s modern architecture.

# Sarah Parcak

Itjtawy was ancient Egypt’s capital for over four hundred years, at a period of time called the Middle Kingdom about four thousand years ago. The site is located in the Faiyum of Egypt, and the site is really important because in the Middle Kingdom there was this great renaissance for ancient Egyptian art, architecture and religion.

# Frank Gehry

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao… Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

# Arne Jacobsen

I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

# Charles Jencks

Mies van der Rohe’s architecture and modern architecture in general suffered from not only being repetitive, but not explaining to the populous what the different rooms were for.

# Federico Garcia Lorca

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

# Richard Meier

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

# Hubert de Givenchy

I haven’t really got a green thumb, but I love gardens and their architecture.

# Gates McFadden

I love a lot of things, and I’m pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I’d be an obsessive hairdresser.

# David Chipperfield

I suppose I’m trying to build an architecture that’s as timeless as possible, although we’re all creatures of our age.

# John Baldacci

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy.

# Peter Zumthor

If you look at the Earth without architecture, it’s sometimes a little bit unpleasant. So there is this basic human need to do shelter in the broadest sense of the word, whether it’s a movie theater or a simple log cabin in the mountains. This is the core of architecture: To provide a space for human beings.

# Jhumpa Lahiri

In graduate school, I decide to write my doctoral thesis on how Italian architecture influenced English playwrights of the seventeenth century. I wonder why certain playwrights decided to set their tragedies, written in English, in Italian palaces.

# Ma Yansong

Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history.

# Frank Gehry

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It’s about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

# Neil Denari

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.

# Max Walker

About 1998, when ‘Wide World of Sports’ and the ‘Footy Show’ came to an end for me, I couldn’t type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.

# Tadao Ando

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

# El-P

New York is just an energy. There’s a beauty to the way it’s laid out: the architecture, the way the planning is. It’s huge, but you really do get to experience more than your own existence here. It’s kinda hard to isolate yourself from different types of people, different types of ideas or communities.

# Louis Kahn

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it’s fine with me. I’m interested in good architecture as anybody else.

# Martin Filler

The truth be told, the World Trade Center was neither a very good work of architecture nor a very successful piece of urbanism. Its shortcomings were somewhat mitigated by the westward and southward expansion of the World Financial Center and Battery Park City during the 1980s.

# Paul Craig Roberts

Jobs offshoring began with manufacturing, but the rise of the high-speed Internet made it possible to move offshore tradable professional skills, such as software engineering, information technology, various forms of engineering, architecture, accounting, and even the medical reading of MRIs and CT-Scans.

# John Rocha

I want to explore my design philosophy in different mediums, and I’m very interested in architecture.

# Paul Rand

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don’t do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

# Mukesh Ambani

The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two don’t count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on.

# Maya Lin

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

# Amanda Hearst

Zaha Hadid’s Maxxi Museum is proof that Rome and contemporary architecture are no longer a paradox. The building is characteristic Hadid – with curving lines and organic shapes – and the permanent collection already boasts works by Francesco Clemente, William Kentridge, and Gerhard Richter.

# Joseph Altuzarra

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

# Ma Yansong

A shan-shui city is a modern city, a high-density urban situation, but we pay more attention to the environment. We bring waterfalls; we bring in a lot of trees and gardens. We treat architecture as a landscape.

# Peter Eisenman

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

# Andrew Luck

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn’t want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don’t know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

# Walter Gropius

The general public, formerly profoundly indifferent to everything to do with building, has been shaken out of its torpor; personal interest in architecture as something that concerns every one of us in our daily lives has been very widely aroused; and the broad line of its future development are already clearly discernible.

# Gauri Khan

Inspiration is around you. Like, when I travel any country, be it Paris or London, while walking on the streets, the architecture, the restaurants all inspire me. Inspiration for design could be anywhere.

# Santiago Calatrava

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

# I. M. Pei

Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.

# Kevin McCloud

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

# Michael Graves

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention.

# James Henry Breasted

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

# Arthur Erickson

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

# Ma Yansong

When I graduated from high school, I thought I wanted to make science fiction movies, so I applied to film school, but I couldn’t get in. A professor told me I should try architecture instead.

# Keerthy Suresh

After my schooling, I was not thrilled by the idea of treading the usual doctor-engineer line. I wanted to pursue something artistic, and I was good at drawing. The options before me were architecture, fashion, and interior designing.

# Joanna Going

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

# Steven Holl

Frank Lloyd Wright made houses right up until the end. I think that’s important because it gives you a direct connection to all the basic aspects of architecture – the spatial energy of the place, the construction, the materials, the site, the detail.

# Neri Oxman

I object to the hegemony of form in contemporary architecture. We have very advanced technological tools, but ultimately, we create buildings exactly like we used to before: We send the drawings to an engineer and let him struggle with figuring out how to build it.

# Dieter Rams

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

# Jay Chiat

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

# Trevor Paglen

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.

# Glenn Ligon

I graduated from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in art. I was really headed toward an architecture degree, but when I did the requirements for the major, I realized I was more interested in how people live in buildings than in making buildings. I was more interested in the interactions that happened inside the structures.

# D. B. Weiss

The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In ‘Double Dragon,’ we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.

# Christian de Portzamparc

We need to rediscover the essence of the meaning of ‘the use.’ Architecture is, above all, here for a better living. Every gesture, every shape must be justified by various reasons that would reinforce their reason to be, their use, and will give more sense to their beauty.

# Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is always the will of the age conceived as space – nothing else. Until this simple truth is clearly recognized, the struggle over the foundation of a new architecture confident in its aims and powerful in its impact cannot be realized; until then, it is destined to remain a chaos of uncoordinated forces.

# Neri Oxman

Forms in nature are a byproduct of a reciprocal action between a given material and the conditions of the environment. But in architecture, the process is the direct opposite: First you decide on the form, and then you think how to build it in reality.

# Moby

If you’re inclined to dismiss L.A. as a place of unrelenting vapidity and generic 1980s architecture, then you’re doing yourself and L.A. a huge disservice, and you’re just not looking hard enough.

# Daryl Hall

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

# Peter Zumthor

Architecture is exposed to life. If its body is sensitive enough, it can assume a quality that bears witness to past life.

# Ai Weiwei

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron’s invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

# Rem Koolhaas

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it’s always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.

# Oscar Niemeyer

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

# Jaime Lerner

There is little in the architecture of a city that is more beautifully designed than a tree.

# Mitch Kapor

Architecture is politics.

# Arthur Erickson

We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward.

# Tadao Ando

The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.

# Isabella Lovin

The Green Climate Fund is very much a strategic building block in the architecture for financing sustainable development.

# Moshe Safdie

Architecture is changing faster than some other professions.

# Martin Filler

Few developments central to the history of art have been so misrepresented or misunderstood as the brief, brave, glorious, doomed life of the Bauhaus – the epochally influential German art, architecture, crafts, and design school that was founded in Goethe’s sleepy hometown of Weimar in 1919.

# Issey Miyake

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

# Rafael Moneo

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

# Peter Eisenman

I don’t believe that classical architecture is enough to engage people anymore. They say: ‘So what else is new?’

# Theodor Mommsen

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

# John Rocha

I went from fashion to glass in 1995, and I’m very interested in architecture.

# I. M. Pei

I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background’s completely western. But my seventeen years, the formative years of one’s life, and I can’t say that the Chineseness in me is not there.

# Limahl

I’m a member of the National Trust. I absolutely love architecture, history, geography, the arts and culture. Oh, and I love gardens. I moved from London to Hertfordshire, so I could get a garden.

# Bernard Tschumi

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

# Hisham Matar

Grenfell, the building set on fire with the help of its own face, is a scene of a complex injustice: one that is moral, economic, political, and aesthetic. Not only was the cladding unsafe, it was ugly; not only was it ugly, it was untrue both to the architecture of the building it covered and untrue to its responsibility to human safety.

# Robert Lepage

Opera should be a place for art forms to meet. I’ve worked a lot with Peter Gabriel; his music isn’t operatic, but he creates big, popular gatherings to which architecture, dance, and music are all invited.

# Tim Burton

When people are deprived of a sense, their other senses get heightened. If you’re culturally devoid of something – of weather, of artistry, of interesting architecture, all the way down the line to culture itself – you’re either forced to give in and get that car dealership, or you manufacture those things for yourself.

# Brock Pierce

From an architecture perspective, Mt. Gox is not an isolated incident. We’ve had exchanges continually hacked after Mt. Gox. This has been an ongoing problem that has continued to plague our industry.

# Santiago Calatrava

I am an engineer, not just an architect, so I’ve always been motivated by technique or technology. As soon as technology moves just a little bit, it changes architecture.

# Charles Jencks

I’d been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called ‘Not Sculpture Park,’ because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.

# Elizabeth Diller

Architecture is a technology. And it’s involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture – including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.

# Marcel Wanders

My mom and dad had a store, and sometimes people would return broken stuff. I’d take it apart and reassemble it. At 16, I really understood the architecture of things.

# Tadao Ando

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

# Maya Lin

In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it’s done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures.

# Rajeev Suri

Telco cloud and virtualization remain a clear priority for us, and we became the first vendor to supply a commercial telco cloud solution compliant with ETSI Architecture for end-to-end voice-over-LTE services.

# Oscar Niemeyer

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

# Simon Schama

The history of the Jews has been written overwhelmingly by scholars of texts – understandably given the formative nature of the Bible and the Talmud. Seeing Jewish history through artifacts, architecture and images is still a young but spectacularly flourishing discipline that’s changing the whole story.

# Oscar Niemeyer

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

# Greg Lynn

What’s interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

# I. M. Pei

A lasting architecture has to have roots.

# Carlos Slim

The artistic part of us all – I think that the easiest way to appreciate this – is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

# Ian Hamilton Finlay

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

# Robert Lepage

I was interested in theatre, and the only experience that I had in high school was as an actor. But when I got in Conservatoire, my teachers would give me a lot of flack because I wasn’t rehearsing my lines; I’d be doing stage management. I was interested in sound. I was interested in architecture. I was interested in every aspect of theatre.

# Marcus Brigstocke

I’ve spent a lot of very happy times in Edinburgh as a result of playing virtually every festival since 1996. It’s also a beautiful city in its own right, is walkable, within sight of the sea and mountains – and was too far north for the Luftwaffe to have done any damage, hence the spectacularly beautiful architecture.

# Janet Echelman

I never studied sculpture, engineering or architecture. In fact, after college I applied to seven art schools and was rejected by all seven.

# John Howe

Information and inspiration are everywhere… history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture.

# Ma Yansong

In the past, young, talented architects worked together to form a strong social agenda and communicate with a larger audience. That’s what today’s architecture community should be.

# Elizabeth Diller

Theatre is real-time – you get that real-time audience reaction, which is fantastic. And with art pieces, people don’t ever have to explain themselves. You can do something and really follow a research. With architecture, you have to be much more public. You have to build consensus. You have to work within the law. There are more complexities.

# Helmut Jahn

It’s my goal to make a building as immaterial as possible. Architecture is a very material thing. It takes a lot of resources, so why not eliminate what you don’t need as long as you’re able to achieve the same result?

# Thom Mayne

Architecture is a result of a process of asking questions and testing them and re-interrogating and changing in a repetitive way.

# Bob Barr

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

# James Polshek

I went into architecture a little as ‘Peck’s Bad Boy.’ It allowed me to be a critic in a socially condoned way.

# Doug Aitken

The 20th century is a period defined by cultural and artistic movements. However, the 21st century creative-scape that we occupy now doesn’t really have movements in the same way. Instead it’s made up of diverse individuals working across various platforms simultaneously; art, architecture, film, music and literature.

# Paul Keating

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn’t going to give those up.

# Peter York

Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.

# Cameron Sinclair

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

# Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

I was studying architecture at Berkeley when my father passed away in 2007. We knew he had cancer, but we didn’t expect it to escalate so rapidly. In my mind, it was like, ‘He’ll pull through.’ When he didn’t, I didn’t understand. I was 21, and my best friend had died.

# Ma Yansong

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between the city and the park, I tried to design this building to emerge from the natural landscape.

# Linda Colley

I was born and spent my first five years in Chester, an ancient city that retains some of its Roman walls and fortifications and contains a great medieval cathedral, as well as Tudor, Stuart and early 19th century architecture. Visiting these things was free, and my parents – who had little money – made the most of this.

# David Chipperfield

Seeing architecture differently from the way you see the rest of life is a bit weird. I believe one should be consistent in all that one does, from the books you read to the way you bring up your children. Everything you do is connected.

# Peter Zumthor

Architecture has its place in the concrete world. This is where it exists. This is where it makes its statement.

# Levon Helm

We all love musical architecture; there’s no doubt about that.

# Grant Shapps

The arts and crafts architecture of Letchworth and Welwyn Garden City is now hugely admired. Remember much of it was stimulated through open competition.

# Antoine Predock

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

# Arthur Erickson

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

# Helmut Jahn

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

# Oksana Baiul

One of my favorite vacation places is Miami, because of the people, the water and the beach – of course – and the architecture on Miami Beach is so wonderful.

# G-Eazy

London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it’s a special place.

# James Maslow

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

# Cesar Pelli

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture – you always can hope for another project to design.

# David Harewood

I remember coming back to the U.K. after spending five months in Charlotte for ‘Homeland,’ and I just found myself just wandering around London. There’s nothing like it – the buildings, the architecture, the sense of history, the sense of culture – there really is nothing like it.

# Cass Sunstein

If you have an architecture of control, let’s say, where you select in advance everything that’s going to affect your life, then you’re going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature… Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.

# Stephen Sprouse

But after the time there I’d had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn’t last very long.

# Leon Krier

I don’t build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

# Richard Rogers

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change – but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

# Ma Yansong

The architecture scene in China is the most open and free climate compared to many other places. You can find many opportunities.

# Adam Savage

The Internet is probably the most important technological advancement of my lifetime. Its strength lies in its open architecture and its ability to allow a framework where all voices can be heard.

# Tony Scott

We think of enterprise architecture as the process we use for fully describing and mapping business functionality and business requirements and relating them to information systems requirements.

# Thom Mayne

I fought violently for the autonomy of architecture. It’s a very passive, weak profession where people deliver a service. You want a blue door, you get a blue door. You want it to look neo-Spanish, you get neo-Spanish. Architecture with any authenticity represents resistance. Resistance is a good thing.

# Alex Biryukov

In general, Tor architecture is not suited for protecting anonymity of long-term, popular web services.

# Goldwin Smith

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

# Thomas Heatherwick

To make architecture with any real value is a massive challenge.

# Ben Horowitz

When you found a company, you have the original vision, you make all the original decisions, you know every employee, you kind of know every aspect of the product architecture and its limitations.

# Renzo Piano

There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It’s the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it’s the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture.

# Frank Gehry

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. ‘The client made me do this.’ ‘The city made me do this.’ ‘Oh, the budget.’ I don’t believe that anymore.

# Iain McGilchrist

The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete.

# Arthur Erickson

The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.

# Brad Pitt

I’m drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

# Louis Sullivan

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.

# Ann Wilson

The original Heart logo was made back in the real early ’70s by Mike Fisher, who I used to be in a relationship with. He was first our manager and then our soundman. When I met him, he was in design school for architecture, so he was always drawing.

# Thom Mayne

Architecture is the beginning of something because it’s – if you’re not involved in first principles, if you’re not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it’s cake decoration.

# Michael Graves

I taught at Princeton for 39 years, and the school of architecture on the campus is the worst building on the campus.

# Drew Barrymore

I don’t really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

# Santiago Calatrava

When I was in architecture school, I became curious about the exact mathematics, physics, and construction of the great structures I had been studying. I wanted to know how these amazing things would work: the Pantheon, the dome of Michelangelo, the dome of Brunelleschi. So I decided to study civil engineering.

# John Gourley

My dad just left high school in ’69, went to Woodstock, and after half a year of college for architecture, just took off for Alaska. He bought a van and went straight into the mountains and built a cabin.

# Richard Rogers

I believe very strongly, and have fought since many years ago – at least over 30 years ago – to get architecture not just within schools, but architecture talked about under history, geography, science, technology, art.

# Catherine Deneuve

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

# Jonathan Hickman

I have an architecture degree; that’s what my college degree is in. And that sucked. I started doing Web and CD-ROM development really early on, and then that grew into being an art director and doing advertising work.

# Martin Filler

Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived.

# Magnus Larsson

In a way, architecture is about communication. That’s an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there’s definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I’m also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

# Christian de Portzamparc

In the ’60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.

# Peter Zumthor

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

# Richard Rogers

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

# Joel Coen

The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it’s a true story.

# Gilbert K. Chesterton

I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

# Hugo Chavez

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

# Art Garfunkel

I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can’t remember us working it out.

# James Stewart

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I’d done theatricals in college, but I’d done them because it was fun.

# Alain Robert

In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.

# James Wyatt

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

# Alex Winter

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

# Barry Mann

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

# Marilyn Hacker

Of the individual poems, some are more lyric and some are more descriptive or narrative. Each poem is fixed in a moment. All those moments written or read together take on the movement and architecture of a narrative.

# Harry Seidler

After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings.

# Anthony Holden

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn’t have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

# Minoru Yamasaki

So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.

# Minoru Yamasaki

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it’s the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

# Philip Warren Anderson

I acquired an admiration for Japanese culture, art, and architecture, and learned of the existence of the game of GO, which I still play.

# Arthur Erickson

Architecture doesn’t come from theory. You don’t think your way through a building.

# Arthur Erickson

The new architecture of transparency and lightness comes from Japan and Europe.

# Arthur Erickson

Today’s developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

# Ben Nicholson

At this present time, matter is still the best way to think of architecture, but I’m not so sure for very long. The computer is radicalizing the way we think about our world.

# Ben Nicholson

If you’re into architecture and you’re from the West, everything is hors d’oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you’re led there. You can’t escape it.

# Ben Nicholson

You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it’s best.

# Parker Stevenson

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that’s what I studied in college. That’s what I always wanted to do.

# Parker Stevenson

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

# Michael Tilson Thomas

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

# Juan Goytisolo

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

# Helmut Jahn

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

# Helmut Jahn

The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.

# Daniel Libeskind

I studied architecture in New York. So, really I was very moved, like everyone else, to try to contribute something that has that resonance and profundity of it means to all of us.

# Maya Lin

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

# Malcolm Wallop

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

# Stephen Gardiner

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

# William Devane

I would fix other people’s lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

# Larry Wall

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it’s still coming to computer science.

# Goldwin Smith

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

# Thom Mayne

Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of traditional logic because the most interesting parts of the work are non-verbal. They operate within the terms of the work, like any art.

# Thom Mayne

You might say that when you step inside, you’re entering a honorific space, but that’s something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us.

# Kenneth Clark

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.

# Charlotte Bunch

What is being called the UN ‘gender architecture’ is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

# Bernard Levin

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

# Charles Eames

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.

# Rem Koolhaas

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models.

# Paul Bettany

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it’s fantastic.

# Joe Elliott

I’ve always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

# Walter Russell Mead

You look at the steamboat, the railroad, the car, the airplane – not all of these were invented in the Anglo-American world, but they were popularized and extended by it. They were made possible by the financial architecture, the capital intensive operations invented and developed by the Anglo-Americans.

# Jim Woodring

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I’ve paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

# Trey Parker

I got into this little habit of architecture and building. I designed a house in Colorado and one in Hawaii. The idea is supposed to be build and sell – but then I can never bring myself to sell them.

# Caroline Wozniacki

I’d like to do a lot of things – whether in design or architecture or business.

# Tadao Ando

Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those books and see these buildings, and I think of where I stand when I design my architecture.

# Tadao Ando

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 difficult to quantify the attachment.

# Nick Clegg

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it’s completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

# Giambattista Valli

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn’t go with another. That’s why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It’s where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That’s my style, and that’s what my work is about.

# Richard Rogers

Of course I know very little about architecture, and the older I get the less I know.

#Adam Carolla

In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money… and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn’t very good at it.

# Joseph Kosinski

I went to school for engineering, I studied jazz. So I always had this kind of creative side and technical side, and I thought architecture might be the way to combine them, so I went to architecture school in New York.

# Joseph Kosinski

Once I got out of architecture school I decided not to be an architect, I just started my own little design studio.

# Roman Coppola

When I’m in London, Claridge’s is a great favourite. I’m a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

# Tim Gunn

I don’t know why I’ve always been so captivated by architecture.

# Tony Hale

What’s fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and it’s crap-looking – apart from the White House, which is beautiful.

# Oren Peli

I’ve never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

# Jean Nouvel

I like to play with architecture! It’s my favorite game.

# Charlie Rose

I would’ve been intrigued by being a film director. I would’ve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

# Donald Barthelme

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

# Frances Mayes

I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.

# Max Walker

I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

# Jay Griffiths

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception: climate science.

# Sharon Horgan

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

# Jude Deveraux

My university degree is in art and, yes, I do a lot of drawing for all my books. I have a big drafting table set up in a spare bedroom and I cover it with maps and house plans and sketches that I use in the books. Also, I truly love architecture, so that plays a big part in all my books.

# Peter Zumthor

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go… it’s just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

# Peter Zumthor

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

# Hussein Chalayan

I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture.

# Henry Paulson

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

# Lee Radziwill

I’ve always been interested in art, architecture, color.

# Bjarke Ingels

Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.

# Antony Gormley

I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.

# Sufjan Stevens

The World’s Fair was the precursor to theme parks like Disneyworld, and the really sort of cheap, superficial promotional architecture that you see everywhere in the U.S. I think there’s a danger when you start creating a civilisation that isn’t meant to last.

# Ross Lovegrove

I’m involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It’s Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other.

# David Chipperfield

Britain loves a bargain, but you don’t get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

# David Chipperfield

I like to be surrounded by books. My wife Evelyn has a Ph.D. in comparative literature, so we have a lot of her Spanish and German literature books which are wasted on me, plus a lot of novels and books on art and architecture shared by us both. Evelyn used to edit an art magazine called ‘FMR,’ so we have a common interest in design.

# Hugh Hardy

When I was in architecture school at Princeton, the worst thing you could say about someone was that they were eclectic.

# Hugh Hardy

Theater publicly reveals the human condition through appealing to both intellect and emotion. Architecture, whether lowly or exalted, can do the same.

# Steven Holl

I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn’t have to be large.

# Steven Holl

Princeton University’s campus environment presents unique challenges and opportunities for architecture to act as a social condenser.

# Charles Jencks

If you look at any leaf on any tree branch, it’s similar to but not exactly a repetition of the previous branch. So the new science of complexity or showing how an architecture can be produced just as quickly, cheaply and efficiently by using computer production methods to get the slight variation, the self-similarity.

# Leon Krier

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings… based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

# Leon Krier

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they’d become architects. I’ve had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that’s normal.

# Cesar Pelli

When I started designing in school, I discovered that I had a knack for it. I fell completely in love with architecture, and I remain in love with it.

# Christian de Portzamparc

When I was 18, I lived in Greenwich Village, New York, for nine months. At that time, I wanted to change the world, not through architecture, but through painting. I lived the artist’s life, mingling with poets and writers, and working as a waiter. I was intrigued by the aliveness of the city.

# James Polshek

I don’t think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

# Antoine Predock

I didn’t know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don’t even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

# Antoine Predock

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

# Annabelle Selldorf

Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. I’m not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

# Annabelle Selldorf

When you have rules to abide by, does that curtail you as a designer, or set you free? People think of classical architecture visually, but I think the brilliant part of it is actually spatial.

# Annabelle Selldorf

There’s no architect who doesn’t want to build a library – and I am no different. With so much scrutiny now attached to reading – because of technology and how we approach it as a social activity – that is a very exciting area in architecture.

# Annabelle Selldorf

Tension is an interesting quality – and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something that is perfectly rational.

# Annabelle Selldorf

The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.

# Anika Noni Rose

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture – and the people themselves.

# Ben van Berkel

My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.

# Rafael Vinoly

Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don’t fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.

# Martin Filler

Considering my specialization in architecture, I’m not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor’s ‘Batman: Death by Design.’

# Martin Filler

Before the professionalization of architecture in the nineteenth century, it was standard for an aspiring mason or carpenter to begin his apprenticeship at fourteen and to become a master builder by his early twenties.

# Martin Filler

There is no sadder tale in the annals of architecture than the virtual disappearance of the defining architectural form of the Modern Movement – publicly sponsored housing.

# Martin Filler

One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.

# Martin Filler

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

# Martin Filler

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

# Martin Filler

Cost overruns are not uncommon in architecture, particularly for designs that depart from structural or technological norms, or demand a finer quality of execution than commercial schemes – conditions typical of buildings for cultural institutions. Budgets are exceeded for many reasons, not all of them within an architect’s control.

# Martin Filler

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

# Martin Filler

One of the stated goals of the postmodern movement in architecture was a greater sensitivity to the people who live in or use newly designed buildings.

# Martin Filler

Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal ‘cursus honorum’ before its practice could be undertaken.

# Martin Filler

The tall building, concentrating man in one place more densely than ever before, similarly concentrates the dilemma of our public architecture at the end of the twentieth century: whether the new forms made possible by technology are doomed by the low calculations of modern patrons and their architects.

# Bryan Batt

I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.

# Vince Vaughn

The thing about Chicago is that it really isn’t like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I’m from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home.

# Janet Echelman

As a child, I always enjoyed building forts by stringing up bed sheets and clothes. I continue to be inspired by makeshift structures, including my own kids’ forts and temporary architecture of all sorts.

# Joshua Prince-Ramus

Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

# Joshua Prince-Ramus

Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made.

# Michael Hansmeyer

The traditional notion of an architect having a vision of a building and then drawing it either on paper or on a computer and then constructing it isn’t really how architecture works, and in reality, the computer has a lot of influence on design.

# Moshe Safdie

There is a profound ethic to architecture which is different from the other arts.

# Thomas Gibson

Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area.

# Frank Gehry

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn’t hold up.

# Frank Gehry

I don’t want to do architecture that’s dry and dull.

# Renzo Piano

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything – from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up – grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

# Renzo Piano

London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design.

# Charlie Cox

There’s something very special about seeing history so clearly in front of you through that architecture that you just don’t get in the U.S. If I was asked to choose where I’d most like to live, I would always choose London.

# Mark Frost

The architecture for ‘Paladin’ – given that it’s at least three books, with the possibility of more – turned out to be bigger than anything I’ve ever created, with multiple levels of reality, interlocking mysteries and a terabyte of time frame.

Tadao Ando

Since I am a Japanese man who’s been building through the experience of Japanese architecture, my actual designs come from Japanese architectural concepts, although they’re based on Western methods and materials.

# Andrew Lloyd Webber

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

# Rem Koolhaas

There’s nothing Dutch about my architecture.

# Dan Brown

Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture – great power bases. Washington has obelisks and pyramids and underground tunnels and great art and a whole shadow world that we really don’t see.

# Doug TenNapel

I have a traditional view of the afterlife… heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant, and I believe it’s on purpose. We aren’t supposed to try to figure out the architecture of the afterlife, since the big game is here in this life.

# Patti Smith

People wouldn’t know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.

# Taylor Schilling

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that… architecture.

# Twyla Tharp

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

# Philip Treacy

In Rome, I particularly love the history, churches, sculptures and architecture and the fact that you can walk along a tiny cobbled street and turn the corner to find the Trevi Fountain. London is evocative of other eras and full of history.

# Alex Ebert

In a place like the Greek Theater in L.A., to try and create a close connection with the audience seems almost antithetical to the architecture of the building.

# Jools Holland

I have realised how exciting and easy it is to be a time traveller by looking at paintings and films and architecture and playing music or listening to it. I don’t think you necessarily have to live in the present all the time.

# Francisco Costa

I’m inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

# Sara Sheridan

Living in Edinburgh, I consider myself particularly lucky – we have the biggest book festival in the world, a plethora of fascinating libraries and museums, and some of the greatest architecture in Europe.

# P. J. O’Rourke

On inspection, Gaudi’s architecture isn’t whimsical at all.

# Alice Waters

If I weren’t involved with food, I’d be working in architecture. Design is that critical to me.

# Imogen Poots

I find the aristocratic parts of London so unattractive and angular; the architecture is so white and gated. But in New York, it’s different – even uptown it’s really grand, and there’s no real segregation there. It’s all mixed up.

# Clayton M. Christensen

As a general rule, when a new industry takes root, and the first products emerge in a wave, almost always the architecture of the product will be proprietary and interdependent in character.

# Michael Lomenda

Architecture was always the plan. I always figured I’d just do theater on the side.

# Nate Lowman

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it’s centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

# Stanley B. Prusiner

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

# Nikki Sixx

I’m very interested in architecture.

# Virginia Postrel

A world of few choices, whether in jeans or mates, is a world in which individual differences become sources of alienation, unhappiness, even self-loathing. If no jeans fit, you’ll feel uncomfortable or inferior. If no housing developments reflect your taste for unique architecture, you’ll write screeds against philistine mass culture.

# Ron Eglash

I started collecting aerial photographs of Native American and South Pacific architecture; only the African ones were fractal. And if you think about it, all these different societies have different geometric design themes that they use. So Native Americans use a combination of circular symmetry and fourfold symmetry.

# Ron Eglash

My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.

# Ron Eglash

When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn’t even discovered yet.

# Vint Cerf

The idea was that you could grow a system like the Internet one network at a time and then interconnect them. In some sense, the most important thing was the invention of the architecture protocols that enabled the Internet.

# Brian Baumgartner

The show is called ‘The Office,’ and while it focuses on the people, the architecture of the space is very important.

# Claire Tomalin

The thing I love about Rome is that is has so many layers. In it, you can follow anything that interests you: town planning, architecture, churches or culture. It’s a city rich in antiquity and early Christian treasures, and just endlessly fascinating. There’s nowhere else like it.

# Emilio Ambasz

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

# Nathaniel Kahn

There are a lot of bad films out there. There’s a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what’s really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

# Nathaniel Kahn

As a child, my father’s architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn’t respond to it.

# Dexter Fletcher

I love walking along Leith’s waterfront and wandering around some of New Town’s beautiful streets and squares, with their gorgeous Georgian architecture.

# Marco Brambilla

I think in America there’s this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it’s more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

# Alexandre de Betak

I love ’70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up.

# Alan Huffman

Architecture students are generally given theoretical projects, often located at distant locations, and told to come up with a design.

# Shane Carruth

As a viewer, that’s work I respond to – work that I know is singular in some way. If I’m being challenged by something on screen, if I don’t quite know why it’s happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there’ll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

# John Updike

The substance of fictional architecture is not bricks and mortar but evanescent consciousness.

# Thom Mayne

Do I provoke as a method of investigation? Of course. That’s the essence of architecture. Do I do it with gusto? I do.

# Thom Mayne

I don’t know any architects that I respect who don’t have their own voice. I think the difference between architecture and the other arts is your immersion in reality.

# Thom Mayne

I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act – that is its primary role.

# Thom Mayne

I think all good architecture should challenge you, make you start asking questions. You don’t have to understand it. You may not like it. That’s OK.

# Thom Mayne

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

# Thom Mayne

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it’s highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

# Thom Mayne

I’ve always been interested in an architecture of resistance – architecture that has some power over the way we live. Working under adversarial conditions could be seen as a plus because you’re offering alternatives. Still, there are situations that make you ask the questions: ‘Do I want to be a part of this?’

# Thom Mayne

Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to be that.

# Thom Mayne

Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect’s job to service everyday life.

# Cameron Mackintosh

I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.

# Claes Oldenburg

‘Clothespin’ was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.

# Donald Bren

Newport Center has become a Mediterranean town. The climate here is the same as the Mediterranean’s, and so is the architecture. This center exudes a radiance, an energy. It will become a special way of life for everyone.

# Andrew Pyper

Perhaps because my town was so naturally gothic in its architecture and relative isolation – the roads often closed in winter – my stories tended toward the ghostly and the creepily suspenseful right from the get-go.

# Chris Pine

I love architecture.

# Robert Pinsky

The last thing a young artist should do in poetry or any other field is think about what’s in style, what’s current, what are the trends. Think instead of what you like to read, what do you admire, what you like to listen to in music. What do you like to look at in architecture? Try to make a poem that has some of those qualities.

# Rick Perlstein

Prediction is structurally inseparable from the business of punditry: It creates the essential image of indefatigable authority that is punditry’s very architecture; it flows from that calcified image, and it provides the substance for the story that keeps getting told about the inevitability of American progress.

# Gonzalez Inarritu

The visual architecture of ‘Biutiful’ is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. Alejandro

# Danny Rimer

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

# Eric Whitacre

With vocal and choral music, first and foremost, it’s the text. Not only do I need to serve the text, but the text – when I’m doing it right – acts as the perfect ‘blueprint’, and all the architecture is there. The poet has done the heavy lifting, so my job is to find the soul of the poem and then somehow translate that into music.

# Leonard Susskind

You are a victim of your own neural architecture which doesn’t permit you to imagine anything outside of three dimensions. Even two dimensions. People know they can’t visualise four or five dimensions, but they think they can close their eyes and see two dimensions. But they can’t.

# Hans-Ulrich Obrist

I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it’s important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.

# Catherine Hardwicke

When you’re in a creative flow with somebody – and I had this back in architecture school – you’re just so passionate about what you’re doing, and if that other person is just as passionate, you’ll be madly in love with them. It’s just that thrill of creating.

# Robin Lord Taylor

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, ‘No. This is not for me.’

# Preston Sturges

I worked out a rather deep-dish theory defining the theater as a form of architecture rather than a form of literature.

# Rob Pike

We don’t believe we’ve solved the multicore-programming problem. But we think we’ve built an environment in which a certain class of problems can take advantage of the multicore architecture.

# Jeffrey Zeldman

For a long time, nobody had figured out Information Architecture, so we all just made stuff up.

# Leon Max

To me, the fashion and architecture I like are very closely linked. Both should be clean and simple and without embellishment.

# Susan Vreeland

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

# Kathryn Harrison

I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules.

# Doug Aitken

‘Station to Station’ came out of a sense of urgency – a sense that culture, be it art, film or architecture, has become so compartmentalised. For this project, we wanted to break that and create a language that is more nomadic and less materialistic and really empowering for the creators and the audience.

# Sammy Cahn

Every song, the title dictates the architecture of the song.

# Ruth Bernhard

To me… San Francisco is an ideal city, intellectually stimulating and naturally beautiful. The oceans and forests are close enough to refresh the spirit; the architecture is always exciting.

# Romesh Gunesekera

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens.

# Michael Graves

For my first apartment, when I was first married, I went to the lumberyard and bought stuff and made couches. My then-wife made cushions. I was really very interested in furniture. I was in school for architecture, but I had to live, and making furniture was different from designing buildings, which I couldn’t do for myself.

# Michael Graves

I’m working on a school of architecture in China. It’s rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I’m so pleased that they asked me.

# Michael Graves

You can never draw enough or read enough – reading about architecture, in other words.

# Michael Graves

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

# S. J. Rozan

I wanted a real profession. And I’d always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what’s kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don’t.

# Hannah Ware

I am a failed architect, if I’m honest. I got a degree in art history and was about to get another degree, in architecture, but realized I would be terrible at building things because I’ve got really bad spatial awareness.

# Jake Barton

People are moving into modes of participation and self-generation, which apply to everything from museums and television to architecture.

# Harold Ramis

I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.

# Edith Pearlman

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in ‘Post and Beam,’ there is something arresting in a setting… the building behind the Cathedral.

# Rachel McAdams

I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There’s some attention to be paid to that, but I don’t think it’s everything.

# Jeff Fortenberry

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

# Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

There’s a Danish architecture firm called BIG. I love architecture, and I always check out their work; they’re very good at reimagining the way we live. They put the human experience as the focus, with access to air and outdoor space.

# Venus Williams

I’ve gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.

# Anouska Hempel

I’m not an interior decorator; I’m a designer, and that includes the architecture. The package must be strong and controlled, the rooms aligned, and the windows positioned to make sense with the furniture. Fluff it up, and you’ve got big trouble.

# I. M. Pei

I’ve never left China. My family’s been there for 600 years. But my architecture is not consciously Chinese in any sense. I’m a western architect.

# Narciso Rodriguez

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

# Walter Gropius

I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.

# Walter Gropius

The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art – sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts – as inseparable components of a new architecture.

# Edgardo Osorio

I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It’s like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.

# Kelsey Grammer

I think it’s important to approach a house in a way that’s reflective of the original environment. Maybe I’m a sentimentalist, but I think that certain geographies call out for certain architecture. I like residences that reflect their place.

# Peter Falk

I love Chicago. It’s one of the great cities. I’m crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.

# Andrew Lloyd Webber

I loved medieval architecture when I was very small; I don’t know why.

# Aldis Hodge

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

# James Turrell

I am involved in the architecture of space.

# Darryl Pinckney

‘Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto’ is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

# David Shields

I am exhausted by traditional memoir. I am exhausted by the architecture of the conventional novel.

# Mario Botta

The Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio comes from afar. Our land has a millennial history of emigrations: master masons, architects, builders, decorators, plasterers, artists from the world of building.

# Mario Botta

In 1996, I took advantage of some favourable circumstances to propose to the state of the Ticino Canton the foundation of the Academy of Architecture and, with it, an Italian-speaking university in Switzerland.

# Mario Botta

To me it was fascinating, the idea of going to university and studying a subject – architecture – that I had already faced in building some small houses.

# Mario Botta

Great architecture of the past was always clear. SFMOMA is still a simple building to understand.

# Jean-Michel Jarre

I have played a few times in Barcelona, including the fantastic Olympic Stadium. It’s undoubtedly one of my favourite cities in terms of the people, arts, food, architecture and design.

# Shahid Khan

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don’t make a lot of money.

# Travis Kalanick

Every problem is super-interesting and has its own nuances, and you solve it today, but you try to solve it with an architecture. You build a machine to solve the problems that are like it later. And then you move on to the next.

# Sydney Pollack

If I want to make people moved or cry in a film, I figure out what the room looks like, what the people are wearing, what time of day it is, what the light is, how to photograph it, where to put the camera. It involves optics and costume design and set design and architecture.

# Sydney Pollack

What makes architecture extraordinary is that you’re looking at the building, but your peripheral vision is also seeing how it fits within a space. And it’s seeing more than one part of the building at one time.

# Amor Towles

In retrospect, the pace of change in the arts and industry in the nineteenth century seems pretty glacial. Painting, music, the novel, architecture were all evolving, but at a pretty observable pace.

# Mary Lou Jepsen

As the OLPC laptop was getting ready to go into mass production in 2007, many executives approached me wanting the screen that I invented, and the laptop architecture that I co-invented, for their new laptops, cell phones, and other devices.

# Aldis Hodge

I’ve always known I wanted to be in design somehow. It was going to be architecture, but I would’ve had to quit acting for it. I realized with horology, I could learn at my own pace.

# Jonathan Anderson

When I visit any cathedral, it reminds me of being with my grandparents. They weren’t particularly religious, but my grandfather was obsessed with architecture.

# Brian Grazer

Being interested in other fields and meeting experts outside entertainment – whether it’s a two-hour conversation with John Nash that turns into ‘A Beautiful Mind’ or talking to people in architecture or fashion, CIA directors or Nobel laureates – has given me a better sense of which ideas feel authentic and new.

# Bjarke Ingels

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

# Thomas Heatherwick

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

# Justin Peck

I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.

# Pranav Mistry

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.

# Pranav Mistry

Att our MIT lab, there are people from diverse backgrounds like architecture, psychology, and philosophy, giving a holistic touch to the creation of any technology we may have in mind.

# Sheldon Whitehouse

The fossil fuel industry has taken control of, and powered up, architecture and methods originally built by the tobacco industry and others to attack and deny science.

# Hisham Matar

Architecture remains a passion and a subject I’m very interested in. I learned a great deal from studying it and working in it.

# Charles Dallara

Observers and even some officials raise questions about the future of Greece as part of the Eurozone, while the Eurozone itself struggles to deal with fundamental flaws at the heart of its architecture.

# Pierre Nanterme

In Dublin, we open The Dock, our new multidisciplinary innovation R&D and incubation hub where all elements of our innovation architecture come to life. The Dock is a launch pad for our more than 200 researchers to innovate with clients and acquisition partners with a particular focus on artificial intelligence.

# Pierre Nanterme

We are always looking ahead to anticipate what next, and our unique innovation architecture enables us to take an innovation-led approach to help our clients invent the future.

# Anand Mahindra

After I finished school, I went to JJ College of Architecture and then to Harvard. I did my B.A. with a major in filmmaking.

# Patrick Cox

Shoe design is like architecture – with the finest structure and tight, precise seams, it suits my obsessive neatness.

# Toomas Hendrik Ilves

The thing people forget is that the entire world – or, at least, Europe, U.S., transatlantic, Russia, Soviet Union – that security architecture has been in place since 1945 and has been refined. Already, the U.N. charter that everyone signed is that you can’t change borders through use of force or even threat of use of force.

# Peter Levine

When you are only one vendor, there is a very low rate of innovation. You think the old architecture is just fine, and it can just happily exist for many years.

# Peter Marino

I loathe when architects only analyze architecture in intellectual, nonvisual ways. I really love direct response, and that’s very pop. I don’t want to discuss abstract transparencies with a bunch of kooks.

# Peter Marino

I got into architecture via fine arts, and I was a sculptor myself, and I have always involved artists in my projects. When I say ‘involved,’ I mean I always bring artists in at the beginning projects before they’re built and say, ‘Will you do a room? Will you do a sculpture floating in mid-air? Will you make a chimney? Will you do something?’

# Abi Morgan

I love the South Bank: every era of architecture is there, and you can stop, look, and listen.

# Ma Yansong

The shan-shui city idea is trying to bring traditional values and ways of living to modern high-rise architecture.

# Ma Yansong

Although we’re architects, we believe we do culture; architecture is culture, and the topics we tackle will always arise a broader debate.

# Ma Yansong

In China, it’s very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings.

# Ma Yansong

When I started university, I didn’t know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

# Ma Yansong

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

# Ma Yansong

Early in my career, I tried to bring an artistic feeling to architecture. That’s really the intent and impression of what I think about: context, space, shapes, and landscape.

# Ma Yansong

A pool at the edge of the ocean is the simplest geometry, yet you feel connected to the sea. In a forest with the mountains in the background, you also feel the connection to nature, yet it’s a very complex geometry. I think architecture is about controlling these feelings.

# Ma Yansong

Since the Beijing Olympics in 2008, our office has been discussing how we can make architecture more human and at one with nature. We need to ask ourselves, what legacy do we want to leave behind on humankind’s urban culture?

# Ma Yansong

The way we do our architecture is to show that we can come up with our own solutions. We don’t just take orders.

# Ma Yansong

I think architecture should be a stage, not something too material – more of an environment, not a product.

# Ma Yansong

When I was young and used to look at Chinese architecture, there was no clear definition between what was landscaping and what was architecture.

# Ma Yansong

Oscar Niemeyer really inspired me. He’s from South America, where nature has meaning. And his architecture was not expensive or high tech but artistic and spiritual. I like that.

# Lidia Bastianich

I attended classes and taught classes, in Food Anthropology at Pace University, with an anthropology professor. You can trace history by the architecture and food of a place. Food is one of those things that transcends and stays in the culture.

# Jeff Perry

Everything about camera movement, about how film was made, shot architecture, and time management… I was horrible at all that.

# Scott Foley

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.

# Maneet Chauhan

Jaipur is the capital of Rajasthan and, in my opinion, the best place to visit. It is an amazing hub of history. It’s called the Pink City because all the architecture has a hint of pink in the stones used. It’s an amazing stop for all kinds of food but also for history and shopping. It has a little bit of everything.

# Matthew Ramsey

I love art in general – architecture, anything creative.

# Kersti Kaljulaid

In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.

# Elizabeth Diller

My interest was always to do interdisciplinary work with space. I thought of architecture as one strand in a multimedia practice.

# Elizabeth Diller

In art school, it was about feeling. In architecture school, it was about ideas.

# Elizabeth Diller

Architecture, by definition, is always standing still.

# Elizabeth Diller

We were kind of arrogant when we started and became really humbled as we were doing architecture. It’s really hard to work with budgets and deadlines and all of these collaborators and all of these voices and special interests.

# Elizabeth Diller

I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.

# Elizabeth Diller

As a student, I hadn’t really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me – rather than me growing into it.

# Elizabeth Diller

When I was studying architecture in the 1970s, it was intellectually bankrupt.

# Amanda Foreman

What makes ‘The Marriage of Souls’ such a wonderful book is Collins’s intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.

# Bret Stephens

A Trump presidency – neutral between dictatorships and democracies, opposed to free trade, skeptical of traditional U.S. defense alliances, hostile to immigration – would mark the collapse of the entire architecture of the U.S.-led post-World War II global order.

# Andrew Shaffer

Chicago is a city built on architecture, and there are plenty of buildings to scale.

# Roisin Murphy

I’m really into architecture, I’m a member of the Brutalist Appreciation Society; I’m a member of the Postmodern Society. I write letters to save buildings.

# Roisin Murphy

I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It’s a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.

# Roisin Murphy

A year before I met Mark Brydon – he was the one I used to make all the music with in Moloko – I was living in Sheffield with a guy who was studying architecture. I used to go to his college and crash the lectures there. I had enrolled to do a fine art course, but then I met Mark, and we signed a record deal instead.

# Unai Emery

I like to make a tour round the pitch before games to look at the architecture, the colours in the stadium, the sky, to feel the atmosphere growing.

# Alex Grey

What makes Burning Man special is the location: a 9-mile circle of gypsum, an ancient dried ocean bed. The ground is like a flat crust with no plants or insects, a perfect outdoor gallery for monumental interactive sculpture and architecture.

# Brian Krzanich

All of these technologies that we are putting together… our memory technology, our CPU, our graphics architecture, our GPUs – all that is being applied to where the data is. You can almost predict where Intel will be in the future. It will be where data resides.

# Ludovico Einaudi

The spirituality of the music is something that I always search for in what I do, because I think that music has to have everything inside: a strong architecture, a support, the emotion.

# Hideaki Itsuno

I came to London constantly, working with Ninja Theory on ‘DmC Devil May Cry,’ and I kind of fell in love with this amazing architecture, where you have these buildings that have clearly been around a long time, and they have this amazing gothic look, and then on the first floor, it’s a McDonald’s!

# Alan Menken

I work in a dramatic context, meaning we write with a lot of character specifics, a lot of story specifics. There’s a lot of architecture in our songs.

# Dacre Montgomery

I love food, and my girlfriend comes from an architecture background, so we might open up a restaurant.

# Gauri Khan

I take a keen interest in the architecture of places when I travel.

# Gauri Khan

Personally, one of the greatest sources of inspiration for my work has been architecture. I’ve had the chance to see so many exquisite structures, whether they are historical monuments or modern commercial premises.

# Beth Hart

The audiences are really great. I really love it over there. I love Europe, period. Oh my God, all the architecture and all the history and just to the way people think and live is so different.

# Andrew Flintoff

India – I’ve always felt at home there. Delhi and Mumbai and the Taj Mahal are all incredible – but it’s the people I love. Indians are so interesting and accommodating and friendly. The best hotel I’ve stayed at there is the Rambagh Palace in Jaipur: its architecture is unbelievable.

# Sushma Swaraj

As a mature and responsible nation, one of India’s foreign policy interests is to evolve a regional architecture based on the twin principles of shared security and shared prosperity.

# Michael O’Rielly

Both Republicans and Democrats championed a structure that allowed the ‘application layer’ of Internet architecture to be free from government intervention, apart from occasional Federal Trade Commission activity.

# Deborah Meaden

I need quite a lot going on, so a perfect holiday for me is one in a cooler climate with wonderful scenery, animals or great architecture.

# Ken Loach

The most enjoyable things are the old eighteenth-century terraces that are still standing, that domestic architecture.

# Boney Kapoor

India and Egypt have been strongly influencing each other’s culture, arts and architecture since ancient times.

# Anastasia Soare

I grew up in Romania studying art and architecture.

# Emily Thornberry

Unesco can rightly be claimed as one of Britain’s greatest contributions to that global architecture of peace, and for Penny Mordaunt to be willing to destroy that legacy by withdrawing Britain’s membership is nothing but historical and cultural vandalism.

# Miguel McKelvey

When you go to a normal architecture firm they aren’t going to be innovative in terms of their systems. They’re not going to be thinking of the whole lifespan of this project, or how do we document every single light bulb, or every product, so that when a chair breaks in a conference room, we can replace it right away.

# Tom Anderson

When I left the work world, I started designing my dream house. I dived into architecture and bought seven vacant lots. My plan was to build one house, move in, and build the next. If the next was better, I’d move in and sell the previous one – so on and so forth.

# Matt Hancock

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

# Santiago Calatrava

My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.

# Santiago Calatrava

Because of the nature of the profession of architecture, the art of architecture nourishes itself from other disciplines.

# Santiago Calatrava

I visited Notre Dame at 11 in the morning and the sun was entering through the south rose window, it was so impressive. This is when architecture can be king and give people sensations, like music.

# Santiago Calatrava

When I moved to Switzerland to study at ETH Zurich I became fascinated by Swiss architecture.

# Santiago Calatrava

The world of sculpture precedes by many years the world of architecture.

# Santiago Calatrava

When I work on sculpture, I don’t have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.

# Santiago Calatrava

There is one way that architecture is superior to sculpture, and that is scale. You can walk into a building and have it all around you.

# Santiago Calatrava

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It’s a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

# Santiago Calatrava

Think about what happens when architecture becomes ruins. All you have left are some little columns on a cliff, but it’s still such an overwhelming experience that you could say architecture is that which makes ruins beautiful.

# Santiago Calatrava

What architecture does is what a coat does for our body. It wraps us.

# Santiago Calatrava

You must understand the difference between being an architect and a politician. Architecture is a profession of perseverance. You have to come through. The politician is there to blame someone.

# Santiago Calatrava

I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.

# Santiago Calatrava

Architecture, like dance, is also a language – one that everybody understands.

# Santiago Calatrava

I paint and work as a sculptor, and I see architecture as an art… If you follow this approach you can use techniques to the service of man and to the service of an artistic idea, and beauty.

# Santiago Calatrava

My architecture is very much place-related.

# Santiago Calatrava

Though I love the arts with all my heart – paintings, sculpture, theatre, and music – and think they are among the biggest achievements we humans can do, I am really convinced that architecture is among the most important.

# Shriya Pilgaonkar

I have always been fascinated by Indian history and architecture.

# Gregory Porter

You could spend your time with your nose buried in a guidebook, but Amsterdam really is best explored on foot, so you can stumble upon the city’s hidden gems. The architecture and the beauty of some of the buildings is also wonderful.

# Oneohtrix Point Never

I’m so into this idea that the Internet was this reservoir of mythologies and histories, and the architecture of it being linked pages that create hard connections and bridges between ideas that shouldn’t be linked.

# Kalyani Priyadarshan

I got a degree in architecture for the educational experience but in terms of career, everything is cinema.

# Kalyani Priyadarshan

While doing my architecture from the Parsons School of Design, I also did theatre.

# Kalyani Priyadarshan

If I failed in acting, I wanted to have a backup, thus I chose architecture. I learnt painting as well.

# Neha Sharma

The Ambedkar park represents modern Lucknow. It might not have the stature of a historical monument like the Taj Mahal, but it has an architecture which doesn’t fail to impress.

# Sol Campbell

I’ve got a furniture range with my wife, and I want to get into designing hotels and restaurants as well. We’ve got a big studio in Victoria and a showroom in Belgravia. I’ve always been interested in architecture.

# Kris Marshall

Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he’d be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.

# Jensen Huang

Every market we go to, we have a domain-specific language. Every domain-specific language, underneath, has an architecture.

# Grant Shapps

Throughout the ages it has always been possible to point to good and bad architecture.

# Ann Widdecombe

I am not an enthusiast when it comes to cities, preferring rolling scenery, wildlife and stars to museums, monuments, architecture and traffic.

# Marcela Valladolid

One summer, when I was on break from architecture school in Tijuana, my aunt gave me a summer job cleaning up and peeling garlic, and I got to see her in her element. She was so passionate and such a good teacher, I decided to quit architecture school and go to culinary school in Los Angeles.