Quotes About Architecture

No. 965 Fifth Avenue was a considerably more tasteful house than the old "house full of horrors" at 932.

Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.

French architecture always manages to combine the most magnificent underlying themes of architecture like Roman design, it looks to the community.

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.

Good buildings come from good people, ad all problems are solved by good design.

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Un arquitecto distante está muy lejos de ser un Dios personal que está allí cuidándonos y poniéndonos a prueba día a día; no es alguien a quien rezar, o a quien intentar agradar, o a cuya ira temer.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

In the last few years, making things more usable has become almost everybody's responsibility. Visual designers and developers now often find themselves doing things like interaction design (deciding what happens next when the user clicks, taps, or swipes) and information architecture (figuring out how everything should be organized). I

Buildings in modern cities have lost their metaphoric aspect. Much contemporary architecture is very fragmented and busy on the outside. It's like a skin or a skull, but you don't know what's inside.

There must be a way to combine the high rise and high-density environment with nature. Maybe we can have our gardens in the sky.

My favorite thing about New York is the view, the skyline.

I've always had a dream about New York. New York is an island... those bridges... the skyline... the dynamism.

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

Not only did America invent the skyscraper, it invented the skyline.

I'm about four skyscrapers behind.

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which lead to the loss of our humanity and our sense of spiritual emptiness.

There's the downtown area of Tupelo. Did you see the skyscrapers? Two stories.

That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

I was a rebel. I never wanted to build. We thought of architecture as intellectually bankrupt and slightly corrupt, and I was always more interested in other forms of discourse.