Quotes about Architecture

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We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both. — Karl Lagerfeld
In the architecture of their life some may display Potemkin happiness in view of hiding the dark features of their fair — Erik Pevernagie
What are the dead, anyway, but waves and energy? Light shining from a dead star?That, by the way, is a phrase of Julian' — Donna Tartt, The Secret History
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness — Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
Literature is painting, architecture, and music. — Yevgeny Zamyatin
In the 1970s, while researching in the Library of Congress, I found an obscure history of religious architecture that as — Gloria Steinem, The Vagina Monologues
For me, it does not 'miss' if (the Potteries Thinkbelt study) goes into the archive, not as an example of how railway ca — Roy Landau, The Square Book
(Cedric Price produced the Potteries Thinkbelt) ...project which questioned most of the cherished establishment premises — Roy Landau, The Square Book
Beautiful building,” Phoebe said. Sam nodded. “Classical Revival,” he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly — Jennifer McMahon, Don't Breathe a Word
Simple is complicated. — HEDoffice
We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves. — Norbert Wiener, The Human Use Of Human Beings: Cybernetics And Society
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively resp — Arthur Erickson
We are what we build — Lois Farfel Stark, The Telling Image: Shapes of Changing Times
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be see — Robertson Davies
A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom. — Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
spaces that at first may appear to reflect a simple condition are much more complex when the actions of individuals and — Catie Marron, City Squares: Eighteen Writers on the Spirit and Significance of Squares Around the World
History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust — Thomas B. Costain
With the balcony doors completely open and folded up, his small room acquired an infinite vista. Somewhere on the horizo — Clara Chow, Dream Storeys
The Talmud states, "Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world's grief. Do justly now, love mercy now, walk humbly n — Bridges McCall
Sometimes the things that destroy you, become the architectural blueprints which make your mind royal. — Curtis Tyrone Jones