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Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI, Igor Stravinsky's Themes and Episodes
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
PHILIP JOHNSON, speech, 1975
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
ROBERT VENTURI, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, An Organic Architecture
Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.
HORACE WALPOLE, Horace Walpole's Miscellany
One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.
A.L. ROWSE, The Use of History
I call architecture frozen music.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE, letter to Johann Peter Eckermann, Mar. 23, 1829
As the architecture of a country always follows the earliest structures, American architecture should be a refinement of the log-house. The Egyptian is so of the cavern and the mound; the Chinese, of the tent; the Gothic, of overarching trees; the Greek, of a cabin.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, American Note-Books, Sep. 1836
Only when architect, bricklayer and tenant are a unity, or one and the same person, can we speak of architecture. Everything else is not architecture, but a criminal act which has taken on form.
FRIEDENSREICH HUNDERTWASSER, Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture
The most beautiful house in the world is the one that you build for yourself.
WITOLD RYBCZYNSKI, The Most Beautiful House in the World
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, New York Times, Oct. 4, 1953
Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.
LUIS BARRAGÁN, Time magazine, May 12, 1980
So long as we see the stones and joints, and are not deceived as to the points of support in any piece of architecture, we may rather praise than regret the dexterous artifices which compel us to feel as if there were fibre in its shafts and life in its branches.
JOHN RUSKIN, The Seven Lamps of Architecture
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth…. Architecture aims at Eternity.
CHRISTOPHER WREN, Parentalia
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU, Walden
For architecture, nature provides only indications and analogies, not models to imitate.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
PHILIP JOHNSON, New York Times, Dec. 27, 1964
All architecture is great architecture after sunset.
G.K. CHESTERTON, "The Giant," Tremendous Trifles
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