Architecture Quotes - Page 10

• No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

  John Ruskin

  Simple, Haughty, Architect

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.195, University of Virginia Press

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• No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung,Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.Majestic silence.

  Reginald Heber

  Axes, Silence, Hammers

  Reginald Heber, Amelia Heber (1830). “The Life of Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta: With Selections from His Correspondence, Unpublished Poems, and Private Papers : Together with a Journal of His Tour in Norway, Sweden, Russia, Hungary and Germany, and a History of the Cosacks ; in Two Volumes”, p.30

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• Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

  Louis Kahn

  Art, Past, College

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• I'm very interested in buildings that adapt to changes in climatic conditions according to the seasons, buildings capable of responding to our physical and psychological needs in the way that clothing does. We don't turn on the air-conditioning as we walk through the streets in high summer. Instead, we change the character of the clothing by which we are protected. Layering and changeability: this is the key.

  Glenn Murcutt

  Change, Summer, Character

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• The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.

  Adolf Loos

  Art, Thinking, People

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• The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

  Madame de Stael

  Sight, Approach, Monument

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.

  David Allan Coe

  Badass, Bad Ass, Foundation

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

  Louis Kahn

  Wall, Events, Columns

  "Dead man building: is Louis Kahn's posthumous New York project his best?" by Oliver Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2014.

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• Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.

  Bruno Zevi

  Art, Badass, Dark

  Bruno Zevi (1957). “Architecture as space: how to look at architecture”

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• Architecture aims at Eternity

  Christopher Wren

  Eternity, Aim

  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 ...”

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• Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Order, Building, Ifs

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• Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Inspirational, Funny, Beautiful

  "A Living Architecture: Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects". Book by John Rattenbury, 2000.

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• One of my weekend hobbies is to go look at old houses when there are open houses around here. Just to go look at the architecture. And you can see how many houses were built around 1977, the year where everyone said, "Let's put in these aluminum windows instead of beautiful hand-made wood ones."

  Daniel Clowes

  Beautiful, Weekend, Hands

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• 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

  People, Planning, Attractive

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

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• Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Color, Planes, Certain

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• I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

  Donna Karan

  Fashion, Space, People

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• I am but an architectural composer.

  Alexander Jackson Davis

  Composer

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• The Romans were not inventors of the supporting arch, but its extended use in vaults and intersecting barrel shapes and domes is theirs.

  Harry Seidler

  Bottom Of The Barrel, Use, Arches

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• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  Salvador Dali

  Beauty, Art, Nouveau Riche

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• In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose.

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

  Badass, Bad Ass, Should Have

  Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1853). “The true principles of pointed or Christian architecture: set forth in two lectures delivered at St. Marie's, Oscott”, p.9

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• I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Filled Up, Acting, Literature

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• I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.

  Le Corbusier

  Lying, Talking, Drawing

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• At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.

  Martin Puryear

  Art, Together, Sculpture

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• I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

  Alexander Jackson Davis

  Native American, Building, Architect

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• The back of Saint Peter's is one of the finest pieces of architecture I've ever seen.

  Frank Gehry

  Saint, Pieces, Finest

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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