Quotes about Architecture

Hippodamus, the son of Euruphon a Milesian, contrived the art of laying out towns, and separated the Pireus. This man was in other respects too eager after notice, and seemed to many to live in a very affected manner, with his flowing locks and his expensive ornaments, and a coarse warm vest which he wore, not only in the winter, but also in the hot weather.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

and the Creole houses were invisible behind the rain.

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Down the river was Notre Dame squatting against the night sky.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

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

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

The outside of any building may now come inside and the inside go outside, each seems as part of the other. Continuity, plasticity, and all the new simplicity the imply have at last come home.

Then the house had been boldly planned with a ball-room, so that, instead of squeezing through a narrow passage to get to it (as at the Chiverses') one marched solemnly down a vista of enfiladed drawing-rooms (the sea-green, the crimson and the bouton d'or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where camellias and tree-ferns arched their costly foliage over seats of black and gold bamboo.