A Quotes
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“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
“Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses”
Source: The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses
“Architecture is the art which so disposes and adorns the edifices raised by man, that the sight of them may contribute to his mental health, power, and pleasure.”
Source: The seven lamps of architecture
“Architecture is the constant fight between man and nature, the fight to overwhelm nature, to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. That act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; it's a holy act.”
“Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?”
“Architecture is the king or queen of the arts.”
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
Source: Opus 1, Le Corbusier
“Architecture is the masterly, correct and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light; light and shade reveal these forms; cubes, cones, spheres, cylinders or pyramids are the great primary forms which light reveals to advantage; the image of these is distinct and tangible within us without ambiguity. It is for this reason that these are beautiful forms, the most beautiful forms. Everybody is agreed to that, the child, the savage and the metaphysician.”
“Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.”
Source: Towards a New Architecture
“Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste”
Source: An Odd Volume Extracted from an Autobiography
“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.”
“Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.”
Source: Conversations with Mies Van Der Rohe
“Architecture is the simplest means of articulating time and space, of modulating reality, of engendering dreams.”
Source: Situationism: A Compendium
“Architecture is the thoughtful making of space”
Source: Louis I. Kahn: Talks with Students
“Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth”
Source: Frank Lloyd Wright on architecture: selected writings 1894-1940
“Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.”
“Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.”
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
Source: Mies van der Rohe: architecture and design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno
“Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.”
“Architecture is the work of nations”
Source: The Stones of Venice - Volume I: The Foundations
“Architecture is to make us know and remember who we are.”
“Architecture is too slow in its realisation to be a 'problem solver'.”
Source: Re: CP
“Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.”
“Architecture is what nature cannot make.
Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.”
“Architecture is, to a certain extent, a sensual gratification. It addresses itself to the eye, and affords the best scope for the parade of barbaric pomp and splendour. It is the form in which the revenues of a semi-civilized people are most likely to be lavished. The most gaudy and ostentatious specimens of it, and sometimes the most stupendous, have been reared by such hands. It is one of the first steps in the great march of civilization.”
Source: History of the Conquest of México
“Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life.”
“Architecture isn't just about creating new buildings, sometimes its about retuning what's already there.”
“Architecture may be frozen music, but it melts.”
Source: A cartoon history of architecture
“Architecture Means, Connecting the Unconnected.”
“Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.”
Source: Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland
“Architecture must concern itself continually with the socially beneficial distortion of the environment.”
“Architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. Creative work is expressed in our time as a union of technology and humanity.”
“Architecture must make connections”
“Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped.”
“Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.”
“Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.”
“Architecture should have little to do with problem solving - rather it should create desirable conditions and opportunities hitherto thought impossible.”
“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.”
“Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.”
“Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.”
“Architecture theory is very interesting.”
“Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.”
“Architecture traditionally has been the slowest of art forms. It was not unusual for great cathedrals to take centuries to complete, with stylistic changes from Romanesque to Gothic or Renaissance to Baroque as common as the addition of chapels or spires. But because the function remained the same, the form could be flexible and its growth organic.”
“Architecture trumps licensing any time.”
“Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad?”
“Architecture was pretty much the sexiest thing to be doing from 1700-1800.”
“Architecture was the last of the major professions to devise a formal 'cursus honorum' before its practice could be undertaken.”
“Architecture was, or is, a kind of hobby, an inclination I have to fiddling around and building things. Putting up shelves or cupboards, or making tools, or designing houses ... it always has a functional or social motivation. If social changes are in the air, I am gripped immediately by the desire to build, and I think that I accelerate or anticipate changes in my life by doing so, at least in draft. In the case of my house, that was anticipation: in other words, first build, then change one's life.”
Source: Gerhard Richter: text : writings, interviews and letters, 1961-2007
“Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.”