Quotes About Architecture

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

She had debated, in the frivolity of the beginning, whether to build a hole or a tower; a hole, because she was fond of hobbits, or a tower — well, a tower for many reasons, but chiefly because she liked spiral staircases.

the facade is an ornate confection of Spanish, Italian, and Moorish influences.

When people ask me what L.A. was like in the sixties, I tell them there wasn't as much terrible stucco as there is today: no mini malls with their approximation of Spanish two-story buildings, no oversized SUVs bulging out of parking-space lines. What used to say "Spanish-style" is now something diseased looking. Nobody seems to know how to stucco anymore.

Beginning in about 3200 b.c.—roughly during the same period when the Egyptians were building their first pyramids—people on Peru's northern coast began building terraced mounds alongside large plazas, ceremonial architecture, and large-scale settlements.

triangular-shaped dwelling about fourteen feet across on its

Agama tidak bisa berkembang tanpa wadah budaya, dan budaya akan kehilangan arah dan ruh tanpa bimbingan agama. Inklusivitas peradaban Islam secara simbolik ditampilkan oleh bangunan masjid. Inti dari masjid adalah aktivitas shalatnya, sedangkan arsitektur dan berbagai peralatan lain yang mendukungnya sangat terbuka untuk inovasi dan menampung beragam unsur budaya dari luar.

You look great," he said. It made her smile, even if it was a lie. "I'm as big as a house." He laughed. "I like houses. In fact, I'm thinking about architecture as a career.

I see her body as an arousing work of architecture. A sky-scraping building that I wouldn't mind laying over a mountain to inject my whale-sized shank through its front entrance, knocking the doorman out of the way and flooding the lobby once I am finished with her.

A panoramic view of Chestnut Street—sometimes called the most architecturally perfect street in America

I love their being as bound up in their history as they are, preserving their buildings instead of razing them to the ground to make way for another big beige building with lots of windows to throw yourself screaming from.

I think that narrative, fiction filmmaking is the culmination of several art forms: theater, art history, architecture. Whereas doc filmmaking is more pure cinema, like cinema verite is film in its purest form.

The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes.

Contemporary architecture was of necessity mediocre.

Music is only sound expressing certain patterns, so to what extent is that sound architecture and to what extent theatre?

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before.

The grandeur that was Rome.

The Eiffel Tower is the Empire State Building after taxes.

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

It's engineering, man. Something might look bright and shiny on the outside, but the structure's what counts.

The entire restaurant moved around the center core of the elevator shaft and what must have been the kitchen space.

I remember, many years ago, coming over the Brooklyn Bridge in the night and seeing the skyline of Manhattan, with the Twin Towers. This was, for me, a kind of religious experience.