Quotes About Architecture

Every house should have a turret

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light.

Vehement silhouettes of Manhattan — that vertical city with unimaginable diamonds.

A house is a machine for living in.

Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

The house is a machine for living in.

A house is a machine for living in. Baths, sun, hot-water, cold-water, warmth at will, conservation of food, hygiene, beauty in the sense of good proportion. An armchair is a machine for sitting in and so on. Our

What modern man wants is a monk's cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars. Page 59

L'architecture n'a rien à voir avec les «styles». Les Louis XV, XVI, XIV ou le Gothique, sont à l'architecture ce qu'est une plume sur la tête d'une femme; c'est parfois joli, mais pas toujours et rien de plus.

A ceux qui, absorbés maintenant dans le problème de "la machine à habiter", déclaraient que "l'architecture c'est servir", nous avons répondu: "L'architecture c'est émouvoir". Et nous avons été taxé de "poète", avec dédain

The problem of the house is a problem of the epoch. The equilibrium of society today depends upon it. Architecture has for its first duty, in this period of renewal, that of bringing about a revision of values, a revision of the constituent elements of the house.

Design has killed architecture. Design is what they teach in the schools.

Arhitectura are un alt sens È™i alte scopuri decât doar de a scoate în eviden?? construcÈ›ia È™i de a r?spunde unor necesit??i. Arhitectura este arta prin excelen??, care atinge starea de m?reÈ›ie platonician?, de ordine matematic?, de speculaÈ›ie spiritual?, de percepere a armoniei prin raporturi emoÈ›ionale. Iat? scopul arhitecturii.

the schist pyramids can leave us contrite. Greatness is in the intention; and not in dimensions.

Faire une architecture c'est faire une créature. Etre rempli se remplir s'être rempli éclater exulter froid de glace au sein des complexités devenir un jeune chien content. Devenir l'ordre. ...

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Una nueva sociedad crea su hogar, ese receptáculo de la vida.

A person who designs buildings is called an architect, but in the case of Prufrock Prep a better term might be 'depressed architect.

An architecture that is not documented, and not communicated, may still be a good architecture, but the risks surrounding it are enormous. —RK

The software architecture of a system is the set of structures needed to reason about the system, which comprise software elements, relations among them, and properties of both.

because writing is not only music. It is also architecture, demanding the technique, mastered only after months and years of bitterest labor, which that art possesses---if the architect is to construct a cathedral of merit instead of a mere group of disordered, flimsy outhouses.

architecture is an art of the mind that will display in front of the eyes from others which can satisfy their needs