If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture.
Quoted by Oscar Wilde
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It shows a mediocre architect at the top of his game [on the Beetham Tower in Manchester]
Quoted by Owen Hatherley
Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
Quoted by Stewart Brand
Architect without Pencil is like Rock-star without Guitar.
Quoted by Vinayak Hanchate
Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don't.
Quoted by Norman Foster
What is a staircase, but a corridor improved by elevation?
Quoted by Catherine Gilbert Murdock
Architecture cannot change the economic machinations of globalization.
Quoted by Graham Owen
The musical equivalent of St Pancras Station. (on Elgar)
Quoted by Thomas Beecham
The only direction not represented in their construction was vertical.
Quoted by Lee Battersby
All buildings have a psychological as well as a purely visual effect on the landscape.
Quoted by Elisabeth Beazley
Modern architecture only becomes modern with its engagement with the media.
Quoted by Beatriz Colomina
Mason was a first-rate spatial voyeur, an autodidact of architectural exteriors.
Quoted by Geoff Manaugh
Architecture is slow and therefore requires anticipatory design.
Quoted by Cedric Price
When strange objects shapes the landscape, we get fiction
Quoted by Umair Siddiqui
Old buildings whisper to us in the creaking of floorboards and rattling of windowpanes.
Quoted by Fennel Hudson
For the palace was but emptiness, a hole in a labyrinth of lines, a skyward precipice.
Quoted by Paul Willems
It was a most insistent place but nobody seemed to be overwhelmed by all the insistence.
Quoted by Alice Munro
In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
Quoted by Louis Khan
Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.
Quoted by Vitruvius Pollio
An interesting plainness is the most difficult and precious thing to achieve.
Quoted by Mies Van Der Rohe