Quotes About Architecture

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do something about a republic. You get one chance, your chance, to build a piece of the political architecture in the Pacific. I wasn't going to give those up.

As an architect, you have to provide a shelter to enjoy art. And you have to love art. It's like when you make a concert hall. You must love music. This is the reason why you make the space, to enjoy music - making a space for art is the same thing.

I happen to love buildings, and my passion is bringing people together.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

I have no favorite museum, but it could be the National Gallery in London; it could be the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Every city has a great museum.

The mere fact of holding elections, Americans already knew, was not sufficient to guarantee people's rights. That truth—that an election per se is less important than the architecture within which it takes place—played out in the painful struggles that took place in Arab Spring countries after their revolutions.

The hotel was a blazing citadel, a palace of electricity in the city's cold gloom.

I felt as if I walked inside a cold shadow, a shadow cast by bricks and mortar.

Titles by their nature imply that the play's architecture is like a bull's-eye (and some are) with the point being in the center. Sometimes the point is in the margins, or in the experience of throwing the dart.

Once the language was in the actors' minds, and their bodies were freed from blocking, and in relationship to real architecture, they became virtuosic. Metaphor suddenly had a more intimate relationship with reality. The actor was real, the staircase was real, the emotion was real, and the language floated on top.    

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.

since all my letters are equally bare of personal information. The buildings I try to describe will last longer than we will, so it is only fitting that they should have the greater space.

The hall towered, its gables wide and high and awaiting a barbarous burning. [ll. 81-83]

Each time you admire the façade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

There was an age, however, when the transition from savagery to civilization, with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture, took place for the first time.

The concept of architecture as analogous to landscape is something that has interested me for a long time.

A house should look after itself - as the weather heats up the house cools down, as the weather cools down the house heats up. It's simple stuff, you know? We've known how to do it for a long time.

How is it possible to sayan unkind or irreverential word of Rome? The city of all time, and of all the world!

Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice from the edifice itself.

Of course we have been to the monster Church of St. Peter

THEY bury their dead in vaults, above the ground. These vaults have a resemblance to houses—sometimes to temples; are built of marble, generally; are architecturally graceful and shapely; they face the walks and driveways of the cemetery; and when one moves through the midst of a thousand or so of them and sees their white roofs and gables stretching into the distance on every hand, the phrase 'city of the dead' has all at once a meaning to him.

They have a grand mausoleum in Florence, which they built to bury our Lord and Saviour and the Medici family in.