top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Architecture quotes
"We shape our buildings, thereafter they shape us."
"There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds."
"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
"If you put enough closets together, you have enough space for a room. If you put enough rooms together, you have enough room for a house. If you put enough houses together, you have space for a town, then a city, then a nation, then a world."
"I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."
"All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks."
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
"Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves."
"Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult."
"You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best."
Explore more quotes by Stephen Gardiner
"The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally."
"The Industrial Revolution was another of those extraordinary jumps forward in the story of civilization."
"Until we perceive the meaning of our past, we remain the mere carriers of ideas, like the Nomads."
"The center of Western culture is Greece, and we have never lost our ties with the architectural concepts of that ancient civilization."
"In the crowded and difficult conditions of a steep hillside, houses have had to struggle to establish their territory and to survive."
"The exterior cannot do without the interior since it is from this, as from life, that it derives much of its inspiration and character."
bottom of page