785 Quotes About Architecture

We are not the stuff that abides, but patternsthat perpetuate themselves.

Modern man has lost the sense of wonderabout the unknown and he treats it asan enemy.

Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped.

We shouldn’t abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.

I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.

Chicago has so much excellent architecture that they feel obliged to tear some of it down now and then and erect terrible buildings just to help us all appreciate the good stuff.

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

Jahan thought there were two main types of temple built by humankind: those that aspired to reach out to the skies and those that wished to bring the skies closer down the ground . On occasion, there there was a third: those that did both. Such was San Pietro (St Peter's Basilica)

I began to inhale the breezecarrying ancient love and mercyreflected by the lakeThe architectural beautyof the oval-shaped Château de Chillonburied all its historical mortification and guiltFrom the poem- Along the Shore