Quotes About Architecture

Why can't they figure it out that women take more time and need more stalls? You know why, he said. Because men are the ones who design these things, that's why.

Chalmers stopped listening and let his gaze wander over the new city. They were going to call it Nicosia. It was the first town of any size to be built free-standing on the Martian surface; all the buildings were set inside what was in effect an immense clear tent, supported by a nearly invisible frame, and placed on the rise of Tharsis, west of Noctis Labyrinthus. This location gave it a tremendous view, with a distant western horizon punctuated by the broad peak of Pavonis Mons.

Buildings express values, they have a sort of grammar, and rooms are the sentences.

Of course we must do it! It is a matter of spirit! And that's not to say it could have been done earlier, the infrastructure had to be installed, that's always messy, but now we are ready for the art of architecture, the spirit of it." He

In a storm the Flatiron appeared to be moving toward me like the bow of a monster ocean steamer—a picture of new America still in the making. said Alfred Steiglitz

The only way a man could defy time was to leave behind buildings that would not die.

Have you no respect?" Lando stopped, gave the robot a sober look. "Not a grain of it—not when it's being imposed on me by the architecture.

This house has enough nooks and crannies for English muffins.

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.

It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies

I like architecture to have some raw, vital, earthy quality

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

The rich sought to conquer one another on battlefields of architectural grandeur. Society fought wars in ballrooms and twinkling parlors, wielding the most haute of designers and decor as their weapons of choice, Italian marble beneath their feet.

the rest of the clan, building a mansion at 1 West Fifty-Seventh Street that would become the largest private home in the history of Manhattan.

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If architectural excess were a religion, Hunt was surely its patron saint, placing the most ornate of roofs over the heads of the city's elite from cradle to crypt.

The housing stock along the broad Edinburgh Road was a linear map of a century of social housing, from scrubby squares of muddy grass around garden city dreams, to high-rise machines for living. Occasionally they passed a wall of undemolished tenements, the old housing design that had worked in the city for centuries.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.

One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city

What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.