Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?
Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
Form ever follows function.
An arch never sleeps.
Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
The flowering of geometry.
Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly but take every building to pieces and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis - analysis...
Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for a...
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anach...
Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
A building is a string of events belonging together.
Buildings should be good neighbours.
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