785 Quotes About Architecture

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

... the impression made by architecture, far from being something like visual tallying, essentially consists of an unmediated bodily feeling

That evening we gathered in the dining room, a forty-foot-high-ceiling atrium with indoor plants and outdoor blooms separated by tall windows—the impression of great openness, even while sheltered.

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

Today, I would say at last, this disciplinary Tourette’s syndrome, where suddenly and even in the face of tremendous productivity architecture still blurts out a sense of shame, is starting to be understood as self-imposed and more likely to prolong paralysis than move the discipline further.

Likeness is not identity; orthographic projection is not orthography; drawing is not writing and architecture does not speak.

That NASA was involved suggests that L.A. was considered so alien both to police officers and to scientists that it resembled the landscape of another world. There is Mars, there is the moon, and there is Los Angeles.

Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors.