55 quotes found
“Good architecture lets nature in.”
“Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.”
“Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.”
“In architecture the pride of man his triumph over gravitation his will to power assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.”
“The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.”
“Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful sp...”
“When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anachr...”
“Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.”
“The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.”
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.”
“Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysi...”
“In speculative buildings which is most of our business there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence the top and the elevator cab.”
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”
“The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for ...”
“Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”
