Quotes About Architecture

In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.

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.

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

To me, architecture is an art, naturally, and it isn't architecture unless it's alive. Alive is what art is. If it's not alive, it's dead, and it's not art.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

I'm inspired by many things, from landscapes to textiles. Art and architecture always influence my design process.

Little do we find any Phoenician architecture or plastic art at all comparable even to those of Italy, to say nothing of the lands where art was native.

I was always fascinated by graphic art and typography and architecture. And so I was constantly cutting things and making blocks and making buildings out of shoeboxes.

I've always been interested in art, architecture, color.

I think in America there's this free flow between fashion, art, architecture, music and design. In Europe, it's more segregated between those different disciplines, I think.

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

He now stood outside on the curb in front of a modern building in the middle of a city that had seen more prosperous days. It was making a comeback of sorts, to the extent that steel, asphalt, and concrete and the populations that reside in and on them can have second chances. And it was a historical city with many sites of cultural significance that could draw tourists.

Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space With Mind-Boggling Efficiency.

John had one built in Paris for his wife. They've

We build dwellings and thereafter they build us.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

First we shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.

we must have a better word than "prefabricated" [for houses]. Why not "ready-made"?

No work of art can compare to a city.

Here stood the palace of Syennesis, the king of the country; and through the middle of the city flows a river called the Cydnus, two hundred feet broad.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

modo: "Lo cierto es que las catedrales no significan nada especial para mí. Nada. Catedrales. Es algo que se ve en la televisión a última hora

It is surely gratuitous to point out that the author suffered from an edifice complex (writing of Ayn Rand)