Architecture Quotes
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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. By the time you're seventy or eighty, you're still beginning. So, that's the kind of life I've preferred to being the expert at forty and dead, you know.
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From Architecture down to the Zodiac, every science worthy of the name was imported by the Greeks
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I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.
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"Story-tellers" should listen seriously to design and architecture without getting all literary and imperial about that. Hackers are arrogant geek romantics. They lack the attentive spirit of inquiry.
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a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.
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In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
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One of the most persistent yet elusive dreams of the Modern Movement in architecture has been prefabrication: industrially made structures that can be assembled at a building site.
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Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.
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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.
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Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only this architecture creates.
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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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I love art in general - architecture, anything creative.
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It takes a great client to create great architecture.
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A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.
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The mullein had finished blooming, and stood up out of the pastures like dusty candelabra. The flowers of Queen Anne's lace had curled up into birds' nests, and the bee balm was covered with little crown-shaped pods. In another month -- no, two, maybe -- would come the season of the skeletons, when all that was left of the weeds was their brittle architecture. But the time was not yet. The air was warm and bright, the grass was green, and the leaves, and the lazy monarch butterflies were everywhere.
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What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.
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My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.
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So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal.
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The remarkable photographs by Craig Varjabedian are not only beautiful but also extremely valuable documents of architecture, culture, and lifestyle . . .
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I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to redescribe the body as a place.
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I think architecture, to be really intense and fulfilling, doesn't have to be large.
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It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
