Quotes About Architecture

Over all this the schloss shows its many-windowed front; its towers, and its Gothic chapel.

Catholics speak, like baseball players, in the coded language of gesture. Sure, the Roman Catholic Church is an abomination to man and a disgrace to God, but it comes with a highly structured Mass, several sacred pilgrimages, the oldest songs, the most impressive architecture, and a whole bunch of things to do whenever you enter the church. Taken all together, they make you one with your brother.

Sure, the Roman Catholic Church is an abomination to man and a disgrace to God, but it comes with a highly structured Mass, several sacred pilgrimages, the oldest songs, the most impressive architecture, and a whole bunch of things to do whenever you enter the church. Taken all together, they make you one with your brother.

Bunch a buildings that outgrowed the sky.

When I write now I do not invent situation, characters, or actions, but rather structures and discursive forms, textual groupings which are combined according to secret affinities among themselves, as in architecture or the plastic arts.

The door handle is the handshake of the building.

The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.

Architecture domesticates limitless space and enables us to inhabit it [...]

Modernist design at large has housed the intellect and the eye, but it has left the body and the other senses, as well as our memories, imagination and dreams, homeless.

Instead of an existentially grounded plastic and spatial experience, architecture has adopted the psychological strategy of advertising and instant persuasion; buildings have turned into image products detached from existential depth and sincerity.

the poet speaks not only 'on the threshold of being', as Gaston Bachelard notes,43 but also on the threshold of language. Equally, the task of art and architecture in general is to reconstruct the experience of an undifferentiated interior world, in which we are not mere spectators, but to which we inseparably belong.

The inhumanity of contemporary architecture and cities can be understood as the consequence of the neglect of the body and the senses, and an imbalance in our sensory system.

The body knows and remembers. Architectural meaning derives from archaic responses and reactions remembered by the body and the senses.

arhitecture domesticates limitless space and enable us to inhabit it, but it should likewise domesticate endless time and enable us to inhabit the continum of time

Mimari imgelerde eyleme yönelik, eylemsel kar??la?ma an?na yönelik bir ima ya da bir amaç ve "i?lev vaadi" vard?r.

Genel olarak sanat ve mimarl???n görevi de salt birer izleyici olmakla kalmay?p, ayr?lmazcas?na ait oldu?umuz farkl?la?mam?? bir iç dünya deneyimini yeniden kurmakt?r. Sanatsal yap?tlarda varolu?sal anlama yetisi tam da dünyayla kar??la?mam?zdan ve dünyada -olmakl???m?zdan do?ar- kavramsalla?t?r?lamaz ve anl?kla?t?r?lamaz.

Sanatç?lar?n ve mimarlar?n sözel ifadeleri genel olarak itibari de?erleriyle ele al?nmamal?d?r, zira ço?u zaman yüzeydeki bilinçli birer rasyonalizasyon ya da savunmadan ibarettirler ve pekala yap?ta bizzat dirimsel gücünü veren derin bilinçd??? niyetlerle keskin bir kar??tl?k bir kar??tl?k içinde olabilmektedirler.

Architecture cannot, however, become an instrument of mere functionality, bodily comfort and sensory pleasure without loosing its existentially meditating task. A distinct sense of distance, resistance and tension has to be maintained in relation to programme, function and comfort.

Als ob eine Stadt mehr wäre als eine Ansammlung von haushoch gestapelten Heimatlosen.

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.

Es una de las ciudades más bellas del mundo —le dijo Max refiriéndose a Cracovia. Ella le dio la razón en cuanto llegaron a la ciudad, pero le impresionó

Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.

Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.