Quotes About Architecture

Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.

Berlin is liberation. Architecture, man!

Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'

New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

The thickness of the walls should be sufficient for two armed men to pass each other with ease.

Basilicas should be constructed on a site adjoining the forum and in the warmest possible quarter, so that in winter business men may gather in them without being troubled by the weather.

I still hope that the American system of checks and balances will ultimately prevent this man, Donald Trump, with his erratic political style, from jeopardizing our European security architecture.

Patterned after an Italian Renaissance palace, it is 88 times as large and one millionth as valuable to the continuation of man. that Pentagon of traveling salesmen.

I love everything that Frank Gehry does. I wish I could have that man build me a Wayne Manor-style mansion, like his idea of it.

If there is one country and its people that have contributed most to western civilisation's man-made world continuously for the last 2000 years, it must surely be Italy.

I think space, architectural space, is my thing. It's not about facade, elevation, making image, making money. My passion is creating space.

You don't need to spend a lot of money on stuff when you have amazing architecture.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

What strikes me about Toronto is that Toronto's great misfortune was to have too much money in the late 70s and early 80s, and consequently, it built in the style of those periods, which is hideous.

The construction industry likes nothing more than a blank canvas onto which they can impose a brand new building, because that way they can make more money.

I want to build / and raise anew / Theseus' Temple and the Stadiums / and where Pericles livedBut there's no money, too much spent today / I had a guest over and we sat together.

I love architecture, but I learned early on that architects just don't make a lot of money.

The Taj is pinkish in the morning, milky white in the evening and golden when the moon shines.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

I think the artistic side of architecture was natural to me. My mother was an artist and a poet.

These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.