Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral. The size of the project means little in art, beyond the money matter. It is the quality of the character that really counts.
Architect - Architecture Quotes
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture.
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Anthropos apteros for days Walked whistling round and round the maze, Relying happily upon His temperament for getting on. The hundredth time he sighted, though, A bush he left an hour ago, He halted where four alleys crossed And recognised that he was lost. ‘Where am I? Metaphysics says No question can be asked unless […]
Novel buildings of cutting-edge architects are often trumpeted as “bold” and “challenging,” the assumption being that the architect, less repressed than the rest of us, has a truer philosophical grip on life. By this reasoning, resistance from the public only confirms that the artist-architect is ahead of everybody else. In practice, an architect who pictures […]
Form ever follows function.
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
Sir Christopher Wren Said, “I am going to dine with some men. If anybody calls, Say I am designing St. Paul’s.”
