785 Quotes About Architecture

A basic principle of data processing teaches the folly of trying to maintain independent files in synchonism.

...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.

The unadorned gentleman's suit was the product of the change from rigid status to social structures constantly shifting in response to the forces of modern capitalism, becoming ever more egalitarian in both appearance and reality.

With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In India, he charmed a powerful provincial family and ended up making huge, sculptural relics in Chandigarh.

The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.

Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.

Architecture is what nature cannot make.Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up.

Like medicine (architecture) must move from the curative to the preventive.

A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence, namely, the improvement of the quality of life as a result of architectural endeavour.