I would fix other peoples 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. – William Devane
Architecture is my work, and Ive spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings. – Oscar Niemeyer
The organizational architecture is really that a centipede walks on hundred legs and one or two dont count. So if I lose one or two legs, the process will go on, the organization will go on, the growth will go on. – Mukesh Ambani
Im often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. Thats impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more. – Thom Mayne
You might say that when you step inside, youre entering a honorific space, but thats something totally different than experiencing it. And in architecture the experience comes first. That has the deepest effect on us. – Thom Mayne
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, its modern architecture. – Nancy Banks Smith
I love a lot of things, and Im pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. Id be an obsessive hairdresser. – Gates McFadden
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 Ive paid homage to it many times in my drawings. – Jim Woodring
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I cant remember us working it out. – Art Garfunkel
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 its fantastic. – Paul Bettany
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. Id done theatricals in college, but Id done them because it was fun. – James Stewart
But after the time there Id had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didnt last very long. – Stephen Sprouse
Architecture cant 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 isnt real. – Frank Stella
Whats fascinating about D.C., the exteriors are these elaborate structures, this gorgeous architecture and beautiful stonework, and then you go inside and its crap-looking – apart from the White House, which is beautiful. – Tony Hale
I wouldve been intrigued by being a film director. I wouldve been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture. – Charlie Rose
I dont believe in morality in architecture. – Michael Graves
I like to play with architecture! Its my favorite game. – Jean Nouvel
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. – Charlotte Bunch
A structure becomes architectural, and not sculptural, when its elements no longer have their justification in nature. – Guillaume Apollinaire
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. – Colleen C. Barrett
