18 quotes found
“If you want to understand what's most important to a society, don't examine its art or literature, simply look at its biggest buildings.”
“I'll never get over the factthat the buildings all light up at night,and the night comes every nightand without regret we let it go.We sleep a little and we live.That's what we do.”
“We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our buildings to hold us, like a kind of psychological mould, to a helpful...”
“...intricate stone carvings and wood trim gave the law school an almost medieval feel. You'd even sometimes hear that we went to HLS (Hogwarts Law School).”
“Howard was almost as fond of this hall as he was of his own shop. The Brownies used it on Tuesdays, and the Women's Institute on Wednesdays. It had hosted jumble sales and Jubilee celebrations, wed...”
“We expect too much of new buildings, and too little of ourselves.”
“The city of San Francisco engulfed their view through the front windshield. The dazzling light of the late morning sun transformed every glass and metal surface into a silvery mirage.”
“The city buildings in the distance are holding up the sky, it seems.”
“Most of the soap operas always use the Christmas special to kill huge quantities of their characters. So they have trams coming off their rails, or cars slamming into each other or burning building...”
“There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners.”
“We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.”
“We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.”
“Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.”
“So what we have tried to do in our later buildings is to try to be completely consistent, as a painter is consistent or as a sculptor is consistent. Architecture also must be very consistent.”
“I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.”
“The man slips along the stoically congealed houses Perpendicular like them A moving ornament Burning fiction His fragility contradicts the duration of his torments”
“Admirable, however, as the Paris of the present day appears to you, build up and put together again in imagination the Paris of the fifteenth century; look at the light through that surprising host...”
