(421 quotes found)
“A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of an authentic democracy.”
Walter Gropius
“Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.”
Le Corbusier
“This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.”
Malcolm Miller
“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
Laurie Anderson
“Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.”
Spiro Kostof
“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.”
Frank Stella
“Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.”
Louis Kahn
“The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a war between architecture and painting in which both come out badly maimed.”
John Canaday
“Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music”
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul”
Ernest Dimnet
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