Top 25 Architecture Quotes of 486 - Page 13

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

Thomas Jefferson

Land, Genius, Architecture

Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.172, Penguin

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.

Stephen Gardiner

Architecture, Remember, Egyptian

Stephen Gardiner (2002). “The house: its origins and evolution”, Constable & Company Limited

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Samuel Butler

Art, Architecture, Revival

Notebooks (1912) ch. 8

I've never had a problem with the old truism about dancing to architecture. I think you can dance to architecture. There's some pretty funky architecture to dance to.

Rob Chapman

Thinking, Dancing, Architecture

"ROB CHAPMAN (author of “A VERY IRREGULAR HEAD: THE LIFE OF SYD BARRETT”)". Revolt Of The Apes Interview, revoltoftheapes.com. January 25, 2011.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Rem Koolhaas

Thinking, Important, Architecture

"'Evil Can also Be Beautiful'". Interview with Matthias Matussek and Joachim Kronsbein, www.spiegel.de. March 27, 2006.

Architecture is not a profession, it is a discipline.

Raimund Abraham

Discipline, Architecture, Profession

Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.

Maya Lin

Architecture, Warmth

Good architecture lets nature in.

Mario Pei

Architecture

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

Malcolm Wallop

President, Doctrine, Architecture

"[Flashback interview] Retired Senator Malcolm Wallop: 'Frontier Freedom'". Interview with Rick Henderson, www.ff.org. December 21, 2012.

I don't build because I am an architect. I can make true architecture because I do not build.

Leon Krier

Architecture, Architect, I Can

Leon Krier (2011). “The Architecture of Community”, Island Press

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

John Ruskin

Design, Noble, Architecture

John Ruskin (1854). “On the nature of Gothic architecture: and herein of the true functions of the workman in art. Being the greater part of the 6th chapter of the 2nd vol. of 'Stones of Venice'. [48 p.].”, p.13

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

John Ruskin

Art, Architecture, Fine

John Ruskin (2015). “Lectures on Architecture and Painting”, p.82, John Ruskin

Architecture is the work of nations

John Ruskin

Architecture, Nations

John Ruskin (2013). “The Stones of Venice - Volume I: The Foundations”, p.235, Cosimo, Inc.

A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive.

Helmut Jahn

Cities, Architecture, Building

Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.

Helmut Jahn

Two, Architecture, Building

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

Harry Seidler

Europe, Firsts, Architecture

The more I examine the universe and study the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known that we were coming.

Freeman Dyson

Science, Details, Architecture

Freeman J. Dyson (2016). “Dear Professor Dyson: Twenty Years of Correspondence Between Freeman Dyson and Undergraduate Students on Science, Technology, Society and Life”, p.357, World Scientific