Quotes About Architecture

Divide the Kongor lord's house by six. A house that is by a room, with an arch door, and walls of clay and mortar. Now put another room on top of that one, then another, then another, and another, then one more and one more on top of that, with a roof that curves like when the moon cuts herself in half. That was this man's house, a house that looked like just one column was cut off and sent to the Dolingo savannah.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

First Law of Distributed Object Design: Don't distribute your objects!

Architectural refactoring is hard, and we're still ignorant of its full costs, but it isn't impossible. Here the best

In every other country across the world, guests staying at a hotel are free to open the windows in their rooms, with the exception of one: the United States. American hotel windows are sealed, or painted shut, or manufactured in such a way that they can't open or close in the first place.

At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

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When we look, for example, at the Parthenon for the first time, we look at it already knowing that generations of architects chose precisely that style of building for the museums, town-halls, and banks of most of our major cities.

Hudson's house. It was bungalow style with a stone façade

The Kremlin was built (1300)—not as we see it now.

I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house.

did notice that some of the buildings were larger and—relatively speaking—more ornately designed than others. Temples to the orgasm, I imagined.

A person was like a city.

That sweet city [Oxford] with her dreaming spires.

The whole architecture of the notions of psychology... as differentiations of one sole and massive adhesion to being which is the flesh ...There is no hierarchy of orders of layers or planes, there is dimensionality of every fact & facticity of every dimension.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

I left science, then I went into art, but I approach things very analytically. I choose to pursue both art and architecture as completely separate fields rather than merging them.

I probably spent the first 20 years of my life wanting to be as American as possible. Through my 20s, and into my 30s, I began to become aware of how so much of my art and architecture has a decidedly Eastern character.

Old houses are full with memories and that's why they resist to collapse!

Some bridges are so beautiful that we wish them to be our own home!

Some ruins of ancient times are much more beautiful than the best buildings of modern eras!

Today's warm houses will be the cold ruins in the very distant future!