Quotes About Architecture

I like Dubai because of the sheer scale on which the city is built. It is completely futuristic but with a warm, old-world ethos.

Japan's humid and warm summer climate, as well as frequent earthquakes resulted in lightweight timber buildings raised off the ground that are resistant to earth tremors.

I have a thing for clean lines and beautiful form that I attribute to my four years in Tokyo and Kyoto. I also appreciate traditional architecture and a warm palette that I think my Midwest upbringing has something to do with.

Salamanca is known as La Ciudad Dorada, the Golden City, because it is built from Villamayor sandstone and when the sun reflects on it the city has a warm amber tint. The university, founded in 1218, is the fifth-oldest in Europe and one of the most renowned, judged on a par with Oxford.

The job of buildings is to improve human relations architecture must ease them, not make them worse.

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.

Talent finds its models, methods, and ends in society, exists for exhibition, and goes to the soul only for power to work. Genius is its own end, and draws its means and the style of its architecture from within.

For it is not meters, but a metermaking argument that makes a poem—a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome,And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,Wrought in a sad sincerity;Himself from God he could not free;He builded better than he knew—The conscious stone to beauty grew.

One of the things I did differently was to make my milkshakes with a soft product drawn from a tank, instead of hand-dipping ice cream. This changed the layout and gave us more space. One major problem in adapting the California-style building to the Midwestern climate was ventilation. I brought in architectual consultants one after the other in an attempt to solve the problem of exhausting the stale air and replacing it with fresh cool or heated air.

There is just so much beauty in Cambridge. It's wonderful.

Rio de Janeiro has captured my imagination.

I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.

Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.

Damascus was the seat of the Ummayad Caliphate in the 7th and 8th centuries.

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

If, early on, you know how things are put together, then you can build. The architect is in charge of making - he is not an artist.

Prince Charles was a lot wittier than I thought he'd be, and passionate about the environment and architecture.

When I went to school at Emerson, I was completely charmed living there and loved the architecture of the Back Bay.

Chicago is amazing.

I love Chicago. I think it's an amazing city.

My dream has always been to live somewhere in London where the chimneys look as if they could have been used in 'Mary Poppins.'

I like the aesthetics of the Church.

In L.A., cinema and television might be seen as more interesting places for architecture than ever before.