Quotes about Architecture

Have you always liked being Howard Roark?" Roark smiled. The smile was amused, astonished, involuntarily contemptuous.

But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; casting a dim religious light.

Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

I think it is going to be great to be in a building where you can literally hear the quarterback calling signals.

All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines — so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

What is needed most in architecture today is the very thing that is most needed in life- Integrity. Just as it is in a human being, so integrity is the deepest quality in a building...if we succeed, we will have done a great service to our moral nature- the psyche- of our democratic society...Stand up for integrity in your building and you stand for integrity not only in the life of those who did the building but socially a reciprocal relationship is inevitable.

Winston Churchill wisely said, "First we shape our buildings. Thereafter, they shape us." Exegete the architecture of a typical church building and you'll quickly discover that it effectively teaches the church to be passive.

The main message of Gothic architecture is: "God is transcendent and unreachable—so be awed at His majesty." But such a message defies the message of the gospel, which says that God is very accessible—so much so that He has taken up residence inside of His people.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.