Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Ruskin

Architecture is the work of nations

Leon Krier

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

Information architecture and interaction design translate strategic objectives into a conceptual framework for the final user experience.

In any New Zealand town, even small country towns, you will find at least one Art Deco house. These were not built by intellectuals using an avant-garde architect as you might have found in the United States. These were built by builders using handbooks for young married couples who didn't have any intellectual pretensions at all.

I personally have strong feelings about Whittier because of its architecture and the fact that Betty Friedan went there.

Scott Horowitz

If we can determine there's water somewhere, that's a big deal. That has huge impacts on what we do for our architecture for exploration in the future.

If you're not 100 per cent familiar with the territory, this can be a very good idea. An architect or a surveyor will know the industry, and be able to talk the same language as the builders. Even if it's 10 per cent of the total cost of the project, it can be money extremely well spent when it comes to securing your own peace of mind.

In this business, you don't have to be an architect or an engineer or a brick layer. But you have to understand how the money flows. That you can only understand if you're on the site.

I like the architecture. I like the Mediterranean look. I like the way all the elements tie together. This truly will be a destination center.

It's difficult to tell what's happening with grids since it's mostly a marketing-driven exercise today. Our extensive grid research has yet to unearth a major project in implementing a grid architecture related to storage.

It's critical for architects to understand the different manners in which children learn. You need an environment designed to accommodate those needs. The environment for learning is totally different than when I was in school.

It was a work session, architects looked at the property, so they can continue doing their work back at headquarters.

James Snyder

It's about appreciating the quality of our architecture. It's an asset that I want to be nurtured and strengthened rather than changed.

It's going to come down to a process where the architects and engineers look at what will be built on the school property to decide when to expand sewer service and whether they can save the existing well new facilities are put on the property.

It's got a ways to go. The architects have come up with some very creative solutions to some issues. It's just a matter of working through how you get there. Sometimes change is a good thing.

It's the only real pure American style of architecture.

In the face of implacable opposition from some of the most vocal critics in Britain, and at the grave and constant risk of personal unpopularity, you have courageously revived, defended and sustained the most humane principles of British and American architecture and town making,

In order to have very special projects, ... you have to design the rugs, we have to design the fabrics, we have to design and do all the architecture in order to get something very special and new.

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.

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.

Mark Epstein

I must refute the implication ... that a landscape architect is a glorified gardener. A landscape architect -- unlike a landscape designer, nurseryman or gardener -- must complete a rigorous education from an accredited university program.

In a broad sense there are a lot of people working on the elusive nirvana of cross-platform development. This is a very specific area where we firmly believe and espouse as part of our strategy to use a language and an architecture that automatically gives you cross platform.

If there is any programming language architect on the planet who has the experience and insight to pull this off, he'd be on short list.

It has the shape of a sailboat, right in line with the architecture of the river and reminiscent of the old slave ships coming to America.

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.

Joseph Kosinski

I realized that I loved using computers to create something, but being an architect just wasn't going to keep me interested. The idea of a life spent obsessing over bathroom details for an Upper East Side penthouse was pretty depressing.

By incorporating intrusion prevention and antivirus into the VPN-1 Edge series of integrated security appliances, we are providing Unified Threat Management for branch offices just as we did with Check Point Express CI for medium businesses. In addition, only Check Point's unified security architecture delivers preemptive protection everywhere - from the laptop to the internal network to the perimeter to the remote office. With these new enhancements, customers are assured of a consistent security policy throughout the organization - something needed in today's regulated environment.

Clear Channel Television Interactive required an in-house solution we could host ourselves that performed well in a Microsoft environment. While other competitive solutions only supported limited operating environments, AdManager proved to be a scalable solution with a flexible architecture designed to meet all of our business needs.

Clear Channel Television Interactive (CCTVI) required an in-house solution we could host ourselves that performed well in a Microsoft environment, ... While other competitive solutions only supported limited operating environments, AdManager proved to be a scalable solution with a flexible architecture designed to meet all of our business needs.

Clear Channel Television Interactive (CCTVI) required an in-house solution we could host ourselves that performed well in a Microsoft environment, ... While other competitive solutions only supported limited operating environments, AdManager proved to be a scalable solution with a flexible architecture designed to meet all of our business needs.

(City officials) met with the builder and the architect, and we reviewed the issues that were brought to our attention, ... Both the builder and the architect are very cooperative in looking at these problems and taking care of them. I'm confident that that will happen.

Claes Oldenburg

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

Catherine Hardwicke

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.