785 Quotes About Architecture

architecture cannot express specific emotions that are manifested in particular organs. Nor should it try to do so. Its object remains the great existential feelings, the emotions that posit the stable and constant condition of the body

When strange objects shapes the landscape, we get fiction

Once could not learn history from architecture any more than once could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets – anything that might throw light upon the past had been systematically altered.

Adrian Forty was perhaps the first person to propose that the surprise answer to the missing term in the old equation, architecture = buildings + x, was words. If that’s right, as I am increasingly persuaded, it explains why so much talk and writing envelops the practice of design.

Architecture’s history of interaction with other mediums is a long and complex story of intimacy and separation, power and control, but it is also a history that has repeatedly played a central role in the discipline’s advancement.

Architecture Means, Connecting the Unconnected.

Life did not take over the world by combat,but by networking.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Environment and development must go hand in hand, one cannot be sacrificed for the sake of the other.