Quotes About Architecture

Lvov is a city like New York City in America. New York City, in truth, was designed on the model of Lvov.

I observed that the hero had small rivers descending his face, and I wanted to put my hand on his face, to be architecture for him

I see music as fluid architecture.

We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world. We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm in time, but we have allowed slight, and eternal, bits of the irrational to form part of its architecture so as to know that it is false.

A présent j'avais sous la main un vaste fragment méthodique de l'histoire totale d'une planète inconnue, avec ses architectures et ses querelles, avec la frayeur de ses mythologies et la rumeur de la langue, avec ses empereurs et ses mers, avec ses minéraux et ses oiseaux et ses poissons, avec son algèbre et son feu, avec ses controverses théologiques et métaphysiques.

There are systems upon systems that are incredible but possessed of a pleasing architecture or a certain agreeable sensationalism. The metaphysicians of Tlön seek not truth, or even plausibility - they seek to amaze, astound. In their view, metaphysics is a branch of the literature of fantasy. They know a system is naught but the subordination of all the aspects of the universe to one of those aspects - any one of them.

Brick and bricklaying somehow ring of an alternative order of flesh, not raw of course, but scarlet enough, and made up of small identical cells.

If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.

The name skyscraper is originally nautical. Skyscraper is the tiny, triangular sail flown from the top of the mast.

the essence of art is its constant redefinition. So the moment that architecture wants to redefine itself, it moves into art. That's why the pairing of art and architecture is desirable, not as an excuse but as a vector of moving towards something else.

People come, students and everyone else, to be inspired by the biennale. They expect to see architecture as a kind of seismograph of where we are.

I've always maintained that film directors understand architecture a hundred times better than architects do.

Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral." —Frank Lloyd Wright

official capital of Russia in 1718 and remains to this day one of the world's most beautiful cities.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.

Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.

If we find a mound six feet long and three feet wide in the forests, formed into a pyramid, shaped by a shovel, we become serious and something says, "someone lies buried here"... Now that is architecture.

L'architecture éveille en l'homme des états d'âme.. La tâche des architectes est de préciser ces états d'âmes.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

The Pentagon is actually a 10-story building, five up and five down.

People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.