Architecture Quotes
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'I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music.'
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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.
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Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
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Wagon loads of colorful gemstones arrived from all parts of Asia and Europe. Its story is one of great passion and sorrow. Shah Jahan built it as a tomb for his beloved Mumtaz Mahal, whose beauty inspired many royal poets. He chose to express his grief through architecture. It is a testament to his undying love.
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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.
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From my first days studying architecture at the architectural association, I have always been interested in the concept of fragmentation and with ideas of abstraction and explosion, where we were de-constructing ideas of repetitiveness and mass production.
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I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
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The architecture of the song, if it's built properly, can withstand all kinds of things.
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God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.
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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.
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I usually don't share the music with the musicians until right before they have to record their parts, because I hate discussing it and just intellectualizing it on any level. I just want to speak from the subconscious, which knows way more about me than my intellectual side will ever know. Once I start doing the arrangements - what I call the architecture of the song - that has a lot of thought put into it.
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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.
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I've always been interested in combining architecture with a social agenda, and I really think you can invest and be inventive with hospitals and housing.
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Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
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'Clothespin' was the first city monument on a large scale that could compete with the architecture around it.
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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.
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For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.
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Certainly architecture is concerned with much more than just its physical attributes. It is a many-layered thing. Beneath and beyond the strata of function and structure, materials and texture, lie the deepest and most compulsive layers of all.
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I’ve learnt to stop treating architecture as consisting of privileged forms and materials; that’s the hallmark of the strictly disciplinary approach. I think it is more realistic to start with the problems of the people and their environment.
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Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
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For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.
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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.
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Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me - the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture's power to construct our days and nights.
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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.
