Quotes About Architecture

The Hermitage was a key location

Any contractor who would construct a flat-roofed, two-storey building in Northern New Hampshire was enough of a moron to not know how many assholes a human being had.

Like all old, good schools, Devon did not stand isolated behind walls and gates but emerged naturally from the town which had produced it. So there was no sudden moment of encounter as I approached it; the houses along Gilman Street began to look more defensive, which meant that I was near the school, and then more exhausted, which meant that I was in it.

Louis Sullivan, the first great modern architect, declared that form follows function. To understand viruses, or for that matter to understand biology, one must think as Sullivan did, in a language not of words, which simply name things, but in a language of three dimensions, a language of shape and form. For in biology, especially at the cellular and molecular levels, nearly all activity depends ultimately upon form, upon physical structure—upon what is called "stereochemistry.

Although he was largely an observer of the technical community that created Silicon Valley, his various ideas and crusades around the Whole Earth Catalog, which he created in the fall of 1968, foreshadow and resonate with the techno-utopian culture that the Valley spawned. He went on to rethink modern architecture from a biological perspective and later publicly broke with the environmental movement over nuclear power and GMO food.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

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

My buildings should have an emotional core - a space which, in itself, has an emotional nice feeling.

Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

What counts more than style is whether architecture improves our experience of the built world; whether it makes us wonder why we never noticed places in quite this way before.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

The overall experience Skype provided was superior to other folks because of the underlying architecture and the ability to provide a superior experience.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Venecia, hasta cadavérica como está ahora, lanza una provocación insoportable al mundo de la modernidad. Son susurros lo que esta Venecia consigue lanzar, pero son insoportables para el mundo de la técnica, para esa técnica que invade Venecia por masas de turistas, pero también por la veleidad de los arquitectos indignos de tal nombre." aka Rem Koolhaas.

Not only did the Normans bring with them new forms of architecture and fortifications, new military techniques, a new ruling elite and a new language of government; they also imported a new set of attitudes and morals, which impinged on everything from warfare to politics to religion to law and even the status of the peasantry. More of these changes could be grouped under the heading 'national identity.' The Conquest matters, in short, because it altered what it meant to be English,

The largest and most important was St Peter's, the great basilica built by Constantine the Great

in the early fourth century, 350 feet long and able to accommodate around 3,000 worshippers.