785 Quotes About Architecture

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Literature and architecture experience the world in the same way, but arrive at different decisions, and look in different directions.

Literature unleashes revolutions only to withdraw from the fray, while architecture makes the demolition permanent by erecting buildings…

In language, metaphors tend to occur in passing; in architecture they are more consequential.

I think one of the primary goals of a feminist landscape architecture would be to work toward a public landscape in which we can roam the streets at midnight, in which every square is available for Virginia Woolf to make up her novels

Landscaping is the great cardinal sin of modern architecture. It's not your garden, it's not a park - it's a formless patch of grass, shrubbery and the occasional tree that exists purely to stop the original developer's plans from looking like a howling concrete wilderness.

All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.

I am convinced that something out of the ordinary, if not truly unique, is occurring in Toronto. It feels like the city is emerging from a chrysalis.

A man must have a less than ordinary share of sense that would furnish such plain and common rooms with silver-footed couches and purple coverlets and gold and silver plate.