Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

The architect must get to know the people who will live in the planned house. From their needs, the rest inevitably follows.

Brian Baumgartner

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

Cameron Mackintosh

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

P. J. O'Rourke

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

Bjarke Ingels

Architects have to become designers of eco-systems. Not just designers of beautiful facades or beautiful sculptures, but systems of economy and ecology, where we channel the flow not only of people, but also the flow of resources through our cities and buildings.

Bjarke Ingels

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

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.

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.

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.

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

We sent to San Francisco for an architect designer. It cost us a lot of money for that guy. But, out here it's worth it.

Maria Shriver

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.

Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.

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.

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.

Alexander Jackson Davis

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

Alexander Jackson Davis

I am but an architectural composer.

Stephen Bayley

'Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Stephen Bayley

''Where do architects and designers get their ideas?'' The answer, of course, is mainly from other architects and designers, so is it mere casuistry to distinguish between tradition and plagiarism?

Nikki Reed

My dad designed houses and was an architect for many years.

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.

Patch Adams

I make me. At 18, I decided I wasn't going to have an unconstructed self ever. I was going to be the composer, the designer, the architect of me. It's been really fun.

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.

Peter Zumthor

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

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.

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.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Heber J. Grant

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Whether it catches up to what the world sees or record companies or radio or everybody wants - you can't be the architect of that.

Aldous Huxley

Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins.

We basically opened the building to the public, and were visited by physicists and architects and musicians and sound healers,

XML by itself is not a solution -- it's a key ingredient to enable a richer type of solution, ... What you need is an architecture where you can take XML data and integrate it with various applications -- and that's what we're offering with BizTalk.

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.