Quotes About Architecture

He's so obsessed with trying to analyze the architecture

Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being.

Architects should make houses into gardens, and gardens into houses.

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.

The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis.

I believe that architects should design gardens to be used, as much as the houses they build, to develop a sense of beauty and the taste and inclination toward the fine arts and other spiritual values.

Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

I believe in an "emotional architecture." It is very important for human kind that architecture should move by its beauty; if there are many equally valid technical solutions to a problem, the one which offers the user a message of beauty and emotion, that one is architecture.

Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.

Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.

dilapidated grandeur of St. Petersburg,

Al primo sguardo distante, reso più incerto dai veli di nebbia che fanno del sole un disco biancastro, non sai se il miraggio sia il mare che stai solcando, e invece è terraferma, o i palazzi e le chiese appoggiati sull'acqua, in realtà scogli di forme architettoniche.

perhaps the boldest instance of a sudden change in almost every respect, whether of plan, elevation, or detail, which is known to architecture.

The chief extant monument of feudalism is the stone castle.

machicolations.

At Ravenna in Italy, where the buildings of Justinian's time have remained unaltered, one can study, better even than at Constantinople and Rome, the graceful Byzantine capitals and columns and brilliant mosaics, and the early Christian basilican type of architecture.

In Spain, for instance, where the Visigoths ruled for more than two hundred years, there is not a single building left to illustrate their architecture, just as scarcely a word in the Spanish language can be traced back to their tongue.

Abbey of Cluny

the Christian art of secluded Ravenna.

published in 1974 as "A Protocol for Packet Network Interconnection,"16 gave the first architectural description of how the Internet would function as a network of networks, with TCP/IP as the glue holding it all together. Indeed, "the paper" is why Kahn and Cerf are so often hailed today as the inventors of the Internet, to the extent that any two people can be singled out for that honor: this was pretty much where the Internet began.

and the onion-shaped minarets of Persepolis in the distance.

The structure looked as though a pagoda had been mated with Mount Vernon, then boarded up and used as a proving ground for neon tubes.

There was something about the evenings in the Hostess City, whether you started in downtown, on River Street, or on the south side. Savannah had a charm, a magnetism that pulled on anyone's heart. The rich history, ornate architecture, and continuing glamour fused the soulful sense of place and time together like an artisan weld.

The sky is absolutely empty. Beautifully pure and empty. As if the architects and builders would live in all the houses they built! Or could live in them all. It's obvious, it stares you in the fact. There must be a God and he can't know anything about us.