Architecture Quotes:

In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.

topic: Order, Architecture, Building

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: May, Tasks, Architecture

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Art, Architecture, Building, Architecture And Art

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Long, Done, Architecture

The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Architecture, Gothic Architecture

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Voice, Way, Architecture, Quiet Voice

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

- Arthur Erickson

topic: Doe, Spirit, Architecture

Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.

- Arthur Erickson

source: Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

topic: Art, Enemy, Architecture, Rationalism

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Integrity, Men, Architecture

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

- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

topic: Perfect, Architecture, Boundaries, Theological

I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

- Barry Mann

topic: College, Years, Architecture

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

- Ben Nicholson

topic: West, Temples, Architecture

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

- Benjamin Haydon

source: Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.423

topic: Artist, England, Architecture

There is much to learn from architecture before it became an expert's art.

- Bernard Rudofsky

source: Bernard Rudofsky, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1964). “Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-pedigreed Architecture”, p.6, UNM Press

topic: Art, Experts, Architecture

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.

- Bernard Tschumi

topic: Architecture, Building, Cathedrals, Differentiate

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret

- Bernard Tschumi

topic: Regret, Father, Architecture

My apartment reflects my views as an architect. It is minimal, austere. The architecture doesn't impose itself upon you. The apartment is a stage for other things to take place.

- Bernard Tschumi

topic: Views, Architecture, Stage

The fact is that automobiles no longer have a place in the big cities of our time.

- Bertrand Delanoe

topic: Cities, Facts, Architecture

The rules of logic are to mathematics what those of structure are to architecture.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Logic, Architecture, Mathematics

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

- Brad Pitt

topic: Design, Furniture, Architecture

The Internet has created an incredible democratization of the architecture industry.

- Cameron Sinclair

topic: Architecture, Internet, Incredibles

If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.

- Carlo Scarpa

topic: Looks, Architecture, Feels

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business.

- Caroline Wozniacki

topic: Design, Architecture

I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.

- Catherine Deneuve

topic: Art, Architecture, Painting

Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.

- Cedric Price

source: Cedric Price (2003). “Re: CP”, p.136, Springer Science & Business Media

topic: Architecture, Problem, Problem Solvers

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

- Cedric Price

topic: Moving, Medicine, Architecture

Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.

- Cedric Price

topic: Architecture, Environment, Distortion

I do believe architecture, and all art, should be content-driven. It should have something to say beyond the sensational.

- Charles Jencks

topic: Art, Believe, Architecture

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

- Charlie Rose

source: Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 2, 2013.

topic: Directors, Architecture, Film

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

- Christopher Nolan

topic: Jobs, Architecture, Filmmaking

Architecture aims at Eternity

- Christopher Wren

source: Sir Christopher Wren (1942). “The City Churches, Vestry Minutes and Churchwardens' Accounts: St Mary's, Ingestre, Staffordshire; All Saints' and Sessions House, Northampton; the Royal Hospital, Chelsea; the Church and Almshouses, Farley, Wiltshire; the Sheldonian Theatre and Tom Tower, Oxford; the Market House, Abingdon, Berkshire; the Bridge, St. John's College, Cambridge; the New School, Eton; Kensington Palace; the Royal Observatory, Greenwich; Morden and Bromley Colleges; and the Five Tracts on Architecture by Sir Chr. Wren. Drawings, Engravings and Photographs ...”

topic: Architecture, Eternity, Aim

He was of opinion that what we now vulgarly call the Gothick, ought properly and truly be named Saracenick Architecture refined by the Christians.

- Christopher Wren

source: "Conclusion of the life of Sir Christopher Wren". The Magazine of Magazines, p. 11, January 1759.

topic: Christian, Opinion, Architecture, Refined

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

- Clara Schumann

topic: Art, Imagination, Architecture

Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

- Claudio Silvestrin

topic: Beautiful, Giving, Architecture, Decor

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Fashion, Matter, Architecture

I like the architecture of lingerie.

- Colleen Atwood

source: "Costume Legend Colleen Atwood and Composer Marco Beltrami Reflect On Their Careers". Interview with Zainab Akande, www.indiewire.com. November 7, 2014.

topic: Lingerie, Architecture

A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.

- Curtis W. Fentress

topic: Real, Details, Architecture

Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be

- Curtis W. Fentress

topic: Architecture, Building, Should, Preconceived Notions

It takes a great client to create great architecture.

- Curtis W. Fentress

topic: Clients, Architecture

But then architects don't build their own houses.

- Damien Hirst

topic: House, Architecture, Architect

I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.

- Dan Brown

topic: Ciphers, Likes, Architecture, Robert Langdon

Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

- Daniel Burnham

topic: Noble, Planning, Architecture

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.

- Daniel Libeskind

topic: Meaningful, Bad Ass, Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architecture Design

Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.

- Daniel Libeskind

source: "The rise and rise of the skyscraper". edition.cnn.com. July 4, 2005.

topic: Cities, Humanity, Architecture

I love antique architecture, so if I have any indulgences, I have owned and renovated and reconstructed a lot of old houses.

- Daryl Hall

topic: House, Antiques, Architecture, Old Houses

For me, architecture is a social act,

- David Adjaye

source: "A Sense of Place" by Calvin Tomkins, www.newyorker.com. September 23, 2013.

topic: Architecture, Social

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say you don't know enough about architecture - that's ridiculous. It's got to work on many levels.

topic: Differences, Architecture, Good And Bad

Architecture has curled up in a ball and it's about itself. It has found itself either as a freakshow, where you're not sure if it's good or bad but at least it's interesting, or at the behest of forces of commerce.

topic: Levels, Ridiculous, Architecture

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

source: "David Chipperfield: A master of permanence comes home" by Rowan Moore, www.theguardian.com. February 05, 2011.

topic: Interesting, Balls, Architecture

Britain loves a bargain, but you don't get good, lasting architecture on the cheap.

source: "David Chipperfield Talks Architecture and Luxury". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.architecturaldigest.com. January 31, 2013.

topic: Age, Trying, Architecture

Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.

topic: Architecture, Britain, Lasting

- Dean Koontz

topic: House, Architecture, Ghost, Haunted Houses

In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.

- Delia Ephron

topic: Architecture, Los Angeles, Building

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

- Denise Scott Brown

source: Interview with Andrea Tamas, www.archdaily.com. August 2009.

topic: People, Architecture, Attractive, Connecting The World, Connecting

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

- Denise Scott Brown

topic: Analysis, Architecture, Sociology

At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.

- Denise Scott Brown

topic: Mother, Feelings, Architecture

Art and architecture -- all the arts -- do not have to exist in isolation,

- Donald Judd

topic: Art, Architecture, Isolation

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

- Edith Wharton

topic: May, Architecture, Sanity, Decoration, Symmetry

When that shutter clicks, anything else that can be done afterward is not worth consideration.

- Edward Steichen

topic: Done, Architecture, Consideration, Shutters

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

- Edwin Lutyens

topic: Design, Architecture, Architect, Patronage

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

- Emilio Ambasz

topic: Answers, Next, Architecture

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

- Emilio Ambasz

topic: School, Sublime, Architecture, Architecture School

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Literature, Architecture, Decoration, Baroque, Baroque Music

It is very difficult to build contemporary architecture in Italy

- Fabio Novembre

topic: Architecture, Difficult, Contemporary

Architecture is petrified music.

- Felix Schelling

topic: Architecture

New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought.

- Francis Picabia

topic: New York, Cities, Architecture, Futurist

Man, there's another freedom out there, and it comes from somewhere else, and that somewhere else is the place I'm interested in.

- Frank Gehry

topic: Men, Architecture

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

- Frank Gehry

topic: Eye, Architecture, Great Men

Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible.

- Frank Gehry

topic: Chicago, Architecture

Space is the breath of art.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.

topic: Art, Space, Architecture

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

topic: Government, Architecture, Results, Great Cities

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

topic: Badass, Bad Ass, Architecture, Human Values, Architecture And Design

Architecture in general is frozen music.

topic: Inspiration, Way, Architecture

- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

source: 'Philosophie der Kunst' (1809)

topic: Design, Frozen, Architecture

I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser.

- Gates McFadden

topic: Gardening, Architecture, Obsessive, Hairstyles, Hairdresser

Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.

- Geoffrey Jellicoe

topic: Who We Are, Architecture, Remember, Architecture And Art

Architecture is not created, it is discovered â€“ the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

- Glenn Murcutt

topic: Hands, Mind, Architecture, Creativeness

Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life.

- Gretchen Rubin

topic: Everyday, Architecture, Invisible

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

- Harry Seidler

topic: Beautiful, Hair, Architecture, Inspirational Business

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

- Harry Seidler

topic: Europe, Firsts, Architecture, Millennium

Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet.

- Hassan Fathy

topic: Feet, Architecture, Built Environment

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

topic: Taken, Architecture, Strive

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

topic: Two, Architecture, Building, Prototype

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

topic: Attitude, Execution, Architecture, Fuel Efficiency

Our overriding goal in restructuring our financial architecture should be that taxpayers never again have to save a failing financial institution.

topic: Cities, Architecture, Building

- Henry Paulson

topic: Goal, Architecture, Financial, Financial Institutions, Restructuring

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Her Beauty, England, Architecture, Parthenon

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

- Herbert Spencer

topic: Sculpture, May, Architecture, Civilised

The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic relics.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Bad Ass, Events, Architecture, Architecture And Art, Architecture And Design

The British love permanence more than they love beauty.

- Hugh Casson

topic: Love Is, Architecture, British, Permanence

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

- Hugh Casson

source: 1948 An Introduction to Victorian Architecture.

topic: Architecture, Understood

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract

- I. M. Pei

topic: Clients, Architecture, Individual

Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if youre not careful.

- Ian Mckellen

source: "Ian McKellen: 'I couldn't be a dad, I'm too selfish'". Mirror.co.uk Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2010.

topic: Old Friends, Unseen, Architecture, Drifting

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

- Igor Stravinsky

topic: Inspiring, Art, Architecture, Great Artist, Classical Composers

Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture but to have it snubbed.

- J. M. W. Turner

topic: Noses, Architecture, Painting

We have to change from 'ego-architecture' to 'eco-architecture.'

- Jaime Lerner

source: "Maverick mayor: 'Eco-architecture not ego-architecture!'". Interview with Zara Bilgrami, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2008.

topic: Ego, Architecture

I would like to attend college in the future when I have time. I have always been interested in architecture, so perhaps I would pursue a degree in that or business.

- James Maslow

topic: College, Degrees, Architecture

Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture.

- Jan Gehl

topic: Successful, Architecture, Scales

Each new situation requires a new architecture.

- Jean Nouvel

topic: Architecture, Architect, Situation, Modern Architecture, Architecture And Design

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

- Jean Nouvel

topic: Games, Play, Architecture

I think architecture has to be a gift.

- Jean Nouvel

topic: Thinking, Architecture

I think about my work every minute of the day.

- Jeff Koons

source: Interview with Klaus Ottmann, www.jca-online.com. October 1986.

topic: Art, Thinking, Architecture

Complacency will be the architecture of your downfall.

- Jeremy Gutsche

source: Jeremy Gutsche (2009). “Exploiting Chaos: 150 Ways to Spark Innovation During Times of Change”, Gotham

topic: Complacency, Architecture, Downfall

Architecture and building is about how you get around the obstacles that are presented to you. That sometimes determines how successful you'll be: How good are you at going around obstacles?

- Jeremy Renner

topic: Successful, Obstacles, Architecture

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

- Jim Hodges

topic: Art, Thinking, Architecture

- Jimmy Breslin

topic: Hands, Architecture, Intention

Music is liquid architecture; Architecture is frozen music.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Frozen, Liquid, Architecture

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Frozen, Paper, Architecture

Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.

- John C. Portman, Jr.

topic: People, Way, Architecture

...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring.

- John Herschel

topic: Nature, Delicacy, Architecture, Symmetry

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

- John Irving

topic: Writing, Crafts, Architecture

Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

- John Milton

topic: Heaven, Towers, Architecture

Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there..

- John Pawson

topic: Creating, Architecture, Sometimes

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

topic: Simple, Architecture, Modern Architecture, Gothic Architecture, Haughty

Architecture is the work of nations

topic: Art, Architecture, Painter, Builder, Architecture And Art

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

topic: Architecture

Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment.

topic: Art, Architecture, Fine, Ornamentation

- John Zachman

topic: Architecture, Environment, Enterprise, External Environment

I see music as fluid architecture.

- Joni Mitchell

source: "POP MUSIC; Joni Mitchell Finds the Peace of Middle Age" by Stephen Holden. Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1991.

topic: Architecture, Fluid

In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

- Joseph Altuzarra

topic: Fashion, Architecture, Aesthetic

The price of property in city centres is making it impossible, particularly in the big cities, for any kind of social mix to take place. It's castrating the whole notion of city life

- Joseph Rykwert

source: "Property prices are "castrating the whole notion of city life"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. February 24, 2014.

topic: Cities, Impossible, Architecture

It's not so much about form versus functionality. Rather, it's about doing both and doing them a lot and doing them well-and that's how we should be talking about architecture.

- Joshua Prince-Ramus

topic: Talking, Architecture, Form, Functionality

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

- Juhani Pallasmaa

source: Juhani Pallasmaa (2012). “The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses”, p.77, John Wiley & Sons

topic: Art, World, Architecture

I see the task of architecture as the defense of the authenticity of human experience

- Juhani Pallasmaa

source: "Encounters: Architectural Essays". Book by Juhani Pallasmaa, 2006.

topic: Tasks, Defense, Architecture

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

- Julia Morgan

topic: Art, Architecture, Speak, Visual Art, Architecture And Art

I think buildings should imitate ecological systems.

- Ken Yeang

source: "CNN" Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 20, 2007.

topic: Thinking, Architecture, Building, Stasis

The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness

- Kengo Kuma

source: "Kengo Kuma urges architects to "be humble"". Interview with James Pallister, www.dezeen.com. March 11, 2014.

topic: Architecture, Humbleness, Criteria, Tsunami

In architecture, the demand was no longer for box-like forms, but for buildings that have something to say to the human emotions.

- Kenzo Tange

topic: Demand, Emotion, Architecture

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

- Kenzo Tange

topic: Cities, Architecture, Consideration

Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.

- Kevin McCloud

topic: Architecture, Sexiest

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.

source: Eveline Perroud, Le Corbusier (2007). “Opus 1, Le Corbusier”

topic: Light, Games, Architecture, Interior Space, Modern Architecture

Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.

source: Le Corbusier (1991). “Precisions on the present state of architecture and city planning: with an American prologue, a Brazilian corollary followed by The temperature of Paris and The atmosphere of Moscow”, The MIT Press

topic: Order, Design, Architecture, Modern Architecture

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

topic: Architecture, Chairs, Sofas

When does a building actually become a built?

topic: Struggle, Light, Architecture

Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living.

topic: Doe, Architecture, Building

A lot of my work is about questioning the stability and permanence of architecture, and, in turn, the stability of society.

source: "Without Walls: An Interview with Lebbeus Woods". Interview with Geoff Manaugh, www.bldgblog.com. October 3, 2007.

topic: People, Political, Architecture

Architecture and war are not incompatible. Architecture is war. War is architecture. I am at war with my time, with history, with all authority that resides in fixed and frightened forms.

topic: Architecture, Stability, Questioning

Unlike the past decades, the present moment is lacking in architectural discourse.

topic: War, Architecture, Authority, Incompatibility

Gravity is the insidious enemy of the animate.

topic: Past, Architecture, Moments

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

topic: Enemy, Architecture, Gravity, Insidious

For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.

source: Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

topic: Architecture, Architect

Authentic architecture is not the incarnation of the spirit of the age but of the spirit, full stop.

source: Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.32, Papadakis Publisher

topic: Analogies, Architecture, Models

Modernist architecture and town planning is inimical to human beings... based on the Darwinian concept that evolution is open ended, that there must always be something new and better.

source: Léon Krier (1998). “Architecture: Choice Or Fate”, p.71, Papadakis Publisher

topic: Age, Spirit, Architecture

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

source: "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

topic: Towns, Planning, Architecture

- Leonard Baskin

topic: Architecture, Should, Dedicated

The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

- Lewis Mumford

topic: Mountain, Shrines, Architecture

Architecture and architectural freedom are above all a social issue that must be seen from inside a political structure, not from outside it,

- Lina Bo Bardi

topic: Issues, Political, Architecture, Social Issues

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

topic: Design, Architecture, Reaching, Modern Architecture, Architectural Design

Architecture is the thoughtful making of space

source: "Secrets behind the world's great buildings" by Jonathan Glancey, www.cnn.com. October 26, 2016.

topic: Mean, Architecture, Building, Modern Architecture, Architectural Design

Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

source: Louis I. Kahn (1969). “Louis I. Kahn: Talks with Students”

topic: Thoughtful, Space, Architecture

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.

topic: Architecture, Made

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

topic: Wall, Events, Architecture

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

topic: Wall, Firsts, Architecture

The room is the beginning of architecture.

topic: Eye, Architecture, Eyeballs

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

topic: Rooms, Architecture

- Louis Sullivan

topic: Mirrors, Architecture

But the building's identity resided in the ornament.

- Louis Sullivan

topic: Identity, Ornaments, Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architecture And Design

Architecture is a language. When you are very good, you can be a poet

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children.

topic: Architecture, Language, Poet

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

source: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.17, Princeton Architectural Press

topic: Children, Clients, Architecture

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

topic: Order, Confusion, Architecture

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

source: 1922 De Stijl, vol.6.

topic: Age, Architecture, Spatial

Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.

source: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Moisés Puente (2008). “Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe”, p.9, Princeton Architectural Press

topic: Real, Spirit, Architecture, Battleground

But what if we are dealing with fools?

topic: Names, Architecture