Quotes About Architecture

How much does your building weigh? A question often used to challenge architects to consider how efficiently materials were used for the space enclosed.

I like to think about machines and technology in relation to landscape and architecture.

The problem of architecture as I see it is the problem of all art – the elimination of the human element from the consideration of the form.

Wherever technology reaches its real fulfillment, it transcends into architecture.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible

Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

Actually, if you look at the works of the great architects of our time, you can see that their most beautiful works are always their later works - Kahn, Corbusier, even Gehry.

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

Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially.

The essential London scenes is a row of low identical houses set around a square.

Bordeaux are named after châteaux. Castles.

Never give up on intimate friendships or science or nature. They have always saved us, and they will again. And love is the mastermind of it all... We need to stop racing and to savor beauty, to look up from our screens at the weather, one another's faces, the ocean, the desert, a garden, and architecture, which is another kind of garden.

Ah, yes, beautiful English bones.

Andrássy Út

The houses here had a distinctly Pennsylvanian air, Maggie thought. They were mostly tall stone rectangles, flat-faced, set close to the road, with a meager supply of narrow windows.

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it was not proper to become a painter; it couldn't be done. I resigned myself to architecture school and a long life of drawing buildings. It was a pity, for I disliked buildings, considering them only a stiffer and more ample form of clothing, and no more important.

The hall they entered had arched ceilings over twenty feet high that were painted in tromp l'oeil, basically a bunch of butt-naked baby angels pointing at each other.' (Carlos)

Architecture does not change anything. It's always on the side of the wealthy. The important thing is to believe that it can make life better.

I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.

It was made from bark slabs and wattle and daub

The problem with castles, Halt thought as he continued upward, was that they were full of stairs. If someone could only design a castle that was all on one level, it would save a lot of effort.