Quotes About Architecture

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums.

St. Paul's arose like some huge mountain above the enormous mass of smaller buildings.

Lewis Mumford once wrote that somewhere in the nineteenth century it became necessary to know how to read before one could truly see a building.

Roma Non è Stata Construita Un Giorno

Entire cities could sprout instantly in the desert, with skyscrapers made entirely of force fields.

I love living in London.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

I always loved smokestack industry, and I love towns or cities that have grown up around factories.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

It is far easier to design a class to be thread-safe than to retrofit it for thread safety later.

The skyscraper is but a physical realization of the information contained in the architect's design.

I had never seen a prison, nor had I even imagined one, but there is a racial memory in man that instinctively knows of these things. The architecture of misery has an unmistakable look and feel about it.

A revolution which can transform modes of production but not types of speech, social relations but not styles of architecture, remains radically incomplete.

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Music, landscape gardening, architecture—there was no start to his talents.

The Pyramids of Tsort by moonlight!' breathed Ysabell, 'How romantic!' MORTARED WITH THE BLOOD OF THOUSANDS OF SLAVES

Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture.

Every one of my buildings begins with an Italian journey.

Light is what gives joy to buildings.

Each project is torturous and joyful, and it's always an inspiration.

Cities are about juxtaposition.

Kansas City is truly an awesome town.

I take a keen interest in the architecture of places when I travel.