Quotes About Architecture

The Ambedkar park represents modern Lucknow. It might not have the stature of a historical monument like the Taj Mahal, but it has an architecture which doesn't fail to impress.

Steel is needed everywhere.

The essential and living elements in our architectural activities stem from what was implanted in us during Old Saturn evolution.

The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

The British government — any government — is potentially the worst [architectural] client in the world.

I was at the famous Shiva temple of Brihadishwari in Tanjore,

The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

There is a truism in the world of architecture that design creates culture.

Japanese addresses typically involve three numbers separated by dashes (e.g., 3-35-31). The first of these is the sub-area where the house or building is located, the second is the block it is on, and the third is the building number. And when these numbers are added together, the sum equals the percentage chance that you are never going to find the building you're looking for.

I love the house in 'North by Northwest.'

There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

The difference between architecture and engineering comes in only with the creation of schools. It's a bureaucratic distinction. The result of both disciplines is the construction of objects in a landscape.

La arquitectura es el testigo insobornable de la historia.

To see the city in black and white is to see it through the tarnish of history: the patina of what is old and faded and no longer matters to the rest of the world. Even the greatest Ottoman architecture has a humble simplicity that suggests an end-of-empire gloom, a pained submission to the diminishing European gaze and to an ancient poverty that must be endured like an incurable disease. It is resignation that nourishes Istanbul's inward-looking soul.

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Petersburg did not grow up like other towns. Neither commerce nor geopolitics can account for its development. Rather it was built as a work of art.

The German writer Goethe said that the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music—that to look upon a thing is to hear it. Music is liquid architecture, he wrote, and architecture is frozen music.

But who builds in stone seeks to alter the structure of the universe and so it was with these masons however primitive their works may seem to us.

He had lived in Venice for more than fifteen years and he still didn't know all the city's nooks and crannies — but then again no one did.

I alight at Esplanade in a smell of roasting coffee and creosote and walk up Royal Street. The lower Quarter is the best part. The ironwork on the balconies sags like rotten lace. Little French cottages hide behind high walls. Through deep sweating carriageways one catches glimpses of courtyards gone to jungle.

All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray stone? or the lines of the arches and cornices?