164 quotes found
“A stab had clearly once been made at de-uglifying these public spaces by painting a corridor a jaunty yellow. This was because, it turned out, babies come here to have their brains tested and someo...”
“A city is not an accident but the result of coherent visions and aims.”
“Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.”
“On both sides of the highway I could see the rows of little frame houses, all alike, as if there were only one architect in the city and he had a magnificent obsession.”
“Old houses mended Cost little less than new before they're ended.”
“Architecture is frozen music.”
“Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.”
“Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.”
“You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.”
“What are you thinking? he asked in a disarmingly gentle tone.That the city looks different depending on whom Im seeing it with.He nodded easily, as if this same thought had occurred to him. I notic...”
“Sunsets the best time to take a stroll down Mouffetard, the ancient Via Mons Cetardus. The buildings along it are only two or three stories high. Many are crowned with conical dovecotes. Nowhere in...”
“Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.”
“The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.”
“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.”
“The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams.”
“We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst — you need them both.”
“The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the idea...”
“Beautiful building,” Phoebe said. Sam nodded. “Classical Revival,” he said. It was yet another display of his seemingly unending knowledge that both made her proud and made her feel very small. May...”
“A house can have integrity, just like a person,' said Roark, 'and just as seldom.”
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, qu...”
