279 private quotes tagged architecture

“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.” — Alexander Jackson Davis

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“I paint mostly from real life. It has to start with that. Real people, real street scenes, behind the curtain scenes, live models, paintings, photographs, staged setups, architecture, grids, graphic design. Whatever it takes to make it work.” — Bob Dylan

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“Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.” — Enid Nemy

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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

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“Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.” — Richard Meier

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“In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings.” — Delia Ephron

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“But the building's identity resided in the ornament.” — Louis Sullivan

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“Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition.” — John Portman

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“Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.” — John Portman

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“Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.” — Maya Lin

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“Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.” — Steve Martin

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“Architecture begins where engineering ends.” — Walter Gropius

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“The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.” — Salvador Dali

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“It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.” — John Ruskin

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“The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.” — Saul Steinberg

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“No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.” — John Ruskin

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“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.” — John Ruskin

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“Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind.” — James Rouse

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“Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.” — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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“All the revision in the world will not save a bad first draft: for the architecture of the thing comes, or fails to come, in the first conception, and revision only affects the detail and ornament, alas!” — T. E. Lawrence

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“Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.” — Richard Rogers

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