Quotes About Architecture

The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory.

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 I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.

Italy has a special place in my heart.

When we project the specific organization of the human body into the space outside it, then we have architecture.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man.

True architecture exists only where man stands in the center.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

An architect ought to be an educated man so as to leave a more lasting remembrance in his treatises.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

Other bits of England might be cramped, crowded, and cluttered, but only because all the available space had been claimed by this guest suite. It was situated right in Trinity College, and Richard guessed it had been laid out eight hundred years ago so that noble guests could ride their horses directly into the bedchamber and bring all of their squires and wolfhounds with them too.

The cathedral as a whole is awesome and stirring in spite, and possibly because, of the fact that we have no idea who built it. When we walk through it, we are communing not with individual stone carvers but with an entire culture.

It was an ancient English church of that school of architecture known to scholars as A Big Pile of Rocks.

For the London in which he had grown up had been a congeries of estates, parks, and compounds

Flynn looked back over the Cathedral and glanced at the blueprints. This building was shaped like a cross.

Anni and Josef Albers's house was the whitest place imaginable.

To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.

There is a backlash against me and everyone who has done buildings that have movement and feeling.

Architecture has been male-dominated forever, and I am a grateful beneficiary of the women's movement.

I have a background in technology, design, architecture, arts and sciences. I see myself as a multi-dimensional person.