Quotes About Architecture

Western music in the Middle Ages was performed in these stone-walled gothic cathedrals, and in architecturally similar monasteries and cloisters.

Fans will also notice another link to the Bronx - the field's dimensions are an exact replica of Yankee Stadium, measuring 318 feet down the left-field line, 408 feet to center field, and 314 feet down the right field line.

like the 20th, perched high above Paris. The Parc de Belleville has an unparalleled view of Paris (second only to the view I had from my rooftop apartment), and I could have easily imagined living there amid its rough brick streets and the human scale of the architecture.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

God created paper for the purpose of drawing architecture on it. Everything else is at least for me an abuse of paper.

The Pantheon was the first church I'd ever seen that had an open view to God

I see water and buildings ... Oh my God! Oh my God.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

The job of the architect becomes more difficult in this secular age. Where once he had a god to extol, he now has humans like himself; where once he had "he," he now has "she" and "they.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

There is still a real need for good quality architecture, not paper architecture, but the real stuff.

If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

I think Miss Monroe as architecture is extremely good architecture, and she's a very natural actress, and a very good one.

There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

We may, without offending any laws of good taste, require of an architect, as we do of a novelist, that he should be not only correct, but entertaining.

Everyone thinks the Chinese government selected me. Never ever. I was selected by Herzog and de Meuron.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

The Spiral Gallery may happen, too. It is not dependent on government funding.