Quotes About Architecture

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good.

Barcelona is a great city and Spain is a great country to live in.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Truly great architecture always transcends its stated function, sometimes in unanticipated ways.

When I'm in London, Claridge's is a great favourite. I'm a big fan of art deco architecture and the rooms are extraordinary.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

A city should be built to give its inhabitants security and happiness

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.

We need a new health care architecture that will reduce costs, improve outcomes, and protect vulnerable persons.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

In the end, the character of a civilization is encased in its structures.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

EMBRACING THE EXISTING Japanese perspective on urban history and context

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

If architecture is the history of all phallic emotion, the Empire State Building is utter catharsis, and we are sitting in its silhouette.

My favourite city is Moscow, because of its history, which I find fascinating. As I learned to speak Russian, it made it even more interesting.

I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.