Quotes about Architecture

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.

Western cathedrals and abbeys…through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment to inhabit more than a little of) great spaces of light and beauty, into which, significantly, only our music can penetrate.

Each frame is to be ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

Each frame was ten cubits long and a cubit and a half wide.

The north side was also a hundred cubits long, with twenty posts and twenty bronze bases. The hooks and bands of the posts were silver.

He also had narrow windows framed high in the temple.

The bottom floor was five cubits wide, the middle floor six cubits, and the third floor seven cubits. He also placed offset ledges around the outside of the temple, so that nothing would be inserted into its walls.

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

He built chambers all along the temple, each five cubits high and attached to the temple with beams of cedar.

And the main hall in front of this room was forty cubits long.

The two doors were made of cypress wood, and each had two folding panels.