Quotes About Architecture

I've never owned an Apple product. I like the fact that PCs are open architecture and not locked down like Apple products. I feel that Macs are also unjustifiably overpriced.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.

Form follows beauty.

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle.

Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture.

Whatever it was that drove this passion for collecting, it had an important civic function, Marietta thought. After all, without the largesse of the Medici family, would the Renaissance have happened? Would Florence possess the eternal collection of architecture, painting, and sculpture that it does today?

It had the look of an ambitious architectural breed of lichen that was trying to cover as many acres as it could.

The old world and the emerging one served up in the brick and mortar of the artisan and the architects.

an architect should not take a position of throw more hardware at it... that will fix all the problems.

Dismantling the architecture of my discontent

I've finally figured out what's wrong with Washington D.C. It's that all the buildings are more or less the same height and there's absolutely no skyline, save for the Washington Monument touching the night sky, like a giant middle finger to the world.

But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God it's fantastic.

I would hear the song of the columns and visualize in the pure sky the monument of a melody.

Hermosa compostura de esa varia inferior arquitectura, que entre sombras y lejos a esta celeste usurpas los reflejos, cuando con flores bellas el número compite a sus estrellas, siendo con resplandores humano cielo de caducas flores.

Det ser ut som en krypta. - Döden är förtroendeingivande. Alla banker är inredda som gravvalv.

42 Washington Square,

which had all the architectural grace of a maximum-security prison,

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.