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.’ – Antoine Predock
The visual architecture of ‘Biutiful’ is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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
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. – I. M. Pei
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
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts. – Catherine Deneuve
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect’s task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos
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. – Bjarke Ingels
I love ’70s organic architecture. I am very influenced by the time when I grew up. – Alexandre de Betak
The general public will almost always stand behind the traditionalists. In the public eye, architecture is about comfort, about shelter, about bricks and mortar. – Bernard Tschumi
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. – Anthony Holden
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. – Andrew Pyper
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. – Bjarke Ingels
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
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 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. – Ai Weiwei
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. – Andre Leon Talley
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line. – Arthur Erickson
Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. – Antoni Gaudi
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. – Adolf Loos
I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid. – Aldis Hodge
I don’t see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. – Arne Jacobsen
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. – Bryan Batt
For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It’s a means of making different life forms possible. – Bjarke Ingels
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. – Amanda Hearst