Quotes About Architecture

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I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

It didn't look like any architectural style I knew. I had never seen anything like it. Curran closed his mouth with a click. "Where did they get the granite? The nearest quarry is hundreds of miles inland." "I don't care. I want it," Curran growled.

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A wall is happy when it is well designed, when it rests firmly on its foundation, when its symmetry balances its part and produces no unpleasant stresses. Good design can be worked out on the mathematical principles of mechanics.

An invisible border arose between the parts of the house occupied by Esteban Trueba and those occupied by his wife. In response to Clara's imagination and the requirements of the moment, the noble, seigniorial architecture began sprouting all sorts of extra little rooms, staircases, turrets, and terraces...the big house on the corner soon came to resemble a labyrinth.

Al norte de la ciudad se alza una espectacular construcción, Sacsayhuamán, la fortaleza sagrada, con sus tres hileras de altas murallas zigzagueantes, el Templo del Sol, su laberinto de calles, torreones, andenes, escaleras, terrazas, sótanos y habitaciones, donde vivían con holgura cincuenta o sesenta mil personas. Su nombre significa «halcón satisfecho», y como un halcón vigila el Cuzco.

The skyline of New York is a monument of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces will ever equal or approach.

Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.

To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.

The materials of city planning are sky, space, trees, steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Buildings should be good neighbours.

Life is rich, always changing, always challenging, and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood, concrete, glass and steel, of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.

Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.

Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people, and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.

An arch never sleeps.

No house should ever be on a hill, or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together, each the happier for the other.

The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.

A house is a machine for living.