785 Quotes About Architecture

Modern architecture may be one of the most dangerous things you are exposed to on a daily basis.

Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhereis felt everywhere.

There are two jobs in the world that people want to do the most while knowing the least about: architect and strategist.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

Lycurgus was of opinion that ornaments were so far from advantaging them in their counsels, that they were rather an hindrance, by diverting their attention from the business before them to statues and pictures, and roofs curiously fretted, the usual embellishments of such places amongst the other Greeks.

In order to create a sustainable world, we need to: 1) Educate people.2) Educate people.3) Educate people.For every person left uneducated about the system of this sphere, the nature will make us all pay for it. Sustainability can only start in the mind.

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom.

Viewed from this perspective, architecture no longer provides a happy ending, but instead allows stories to continue.

Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.