Quotes About Architecture

All architecture has a public nature, I believe, so I would like to make a public space.

Every well built house started in the form of a definite purpose plus a definite plan in the nature of a set of blueprints.

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes

There's something about the processional nature of the architecture, of the rooms connecting rooms. It's just breathtaking.

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

What's interesting about architects is, we always have tried to justify beauty by looking to nature, and arguably, beautiful architecture has always been looking at a model of nature.

The Creator made Italy with designs by Michelangelo.

It is today an accepted principle of golfing architecture that the tiger should be teased and trapped and tested, while the rabbit should be left to peace, since he can make his own hell for himself.

Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.

Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation.

Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

I think constraints are very important. They're positive, because they allow you to work off something.

The more centralized the power, the less compromises need to be made in architecture.

Benares emerged as a major centre of finance and commerce as well as a unique centre of religion, education and pilgrimage. In Bengal, Nadia was the centre of Sanskrit learning and a sophisticated centre for regional architectural and Hindustani musical excellence.

I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines.

It is a common architectural strategy to build courtrooms without windows, to enhance the effect of a chamber isolated from the everyday world, a theater for the great and timeless work of the law.

The Mongols, as nomads, built little of permanence, yet the world's largest construction – the Ming Great Wall – was in some sense built for them, if posthumously. Like