Quotes About Architecture

Because concealment has always been an architectural consideration in India, Aziz's house has extensive underground chambers, which can only be reached through trap-doors in the floors, which are covered by carpets and mats.

I believe that the material doesn't need to be strong to be used to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.

There are also half bricks. As the bricks are always laid so as to break joints, this lends strength and a not unattractive appearance to both sides of such walls.

Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses and strains are at ease.

It's tangible, it's solid, it's beautiful. It's artistic, from my standpoint, and I just love real estate.

Don't look at the superficial success, at the short-term success. Look at the deep spiritual questions that architecture has to answer. Who do you build for? Where? What should you build?

The house itself was tall and tilty, with green glass in the windows

HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.

Without learning and experiencing, we never upgrade our neural architecture.

I've always liked traveling around Europe and seeing the architecture. The buildings in capital cities have been there for hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of years. Some look better than the new ones.

Humankind's greatest creation has always been its cities. They represent the ultimate handiwork of our imagination as a species, testifying to our ability to reshape the natural environment in the most profound and lasting ways. Indeed, today our cities can be seen from outer space. Cities

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed.

Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stands on the right spot; that it be securely founded; that it be successfully executed."

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.

Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

We merely want a small house with large rooms, and plenty of them.

If what I have called the "value gap" is the idea that in America white lives have always mattered more than the lives of others, then the lie is a broad and powerful architecture of false assumptions by which the value gap is maintained. These are the narrative assumptions that support the everyday order of American life, which means we breathe them like air. We count them as truths. We absorb them into our character.

The Pyramids first, which in Egypt were laid;Next Babylon's Gardens, for Amytis made;Then Mausolos' Tomb of affection and guilt;Fourth, the Temple of Dian in Ephesus built;The Colossus of Rhodes, cast in brass, to the Sun;Sixth, Jupiter's Statue, by Phidias done;The Pharos of Egypt comes last, we are told,Or the Palace of Cyrus, cemented with gold.

Starlight rains onto every crenellation.

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact.

That's one of the pleasures of living in London. It's so huge, so jammed with interesting buildings, that it's always taking you by surprise.

And as for that house of his, you know he spent five million quid building it? How he got planning permission right on the edge of the sea, and his own private pillbox, is anyone's guess.

It looked a little like a railway terminus as designed by an overambitious architect … one obviously with ideas above his station.