Architecture has its political Use; public Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Commonwealth… Architecture aims at Eternity.
Architect - Architecture Quotes
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
I think Ms. (Marilyn) Monroe’s architecture is extremely good architecture.
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Architecture never lies. It invariably expresses both its own era and the character of the men who build it and… this was a restless, showy architecture, the architecture of an age and a city that felt they need never stop going, that there wasn’t a “too far.” The glorious skyline would look completely different a […]
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
Architecture is the work of nations.
Greek genius… Then we have it once more in their architecture, a beauty as of temperance itself, limited to the straight line and the square, – a builded geometry.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
Wren’s achievement is unique, it is wholly and completely of his soil and time. It is the epitome of an age which could confidently attempt to replace the lost ideals of the past by the newly discovered criteria of its present; an age which could glory in the belief that the advance from the ‘superstitions’ […]
