Quotes about Architecture

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

Most Americans haven't had my happy experience of living for thirteen years in a seventeenth-century house, since most of America lacks seventeenth-century houses.

Hippodamus, the son of Euruphon a Milesian, contrived the art of laying out towns, and separated the Pireus. This man was in other respects too eager after notice, and seemed to many to live in a very affected manner, with his flowing locks and his expensive ornaments, and a coarse warm vest which he wore, not only in the winter, but also in the hot weather.

I love doing it. Every building is like a person. Single and unrepeatable.

I don't really get into architecture in the hotel room. But maybe a little Feng Shui here and there.

Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.

and the Creole houses were invisible behind the rain.

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.

Down the river was Notre Dame squatting against the night sky.

The age of the skyscraper is gone. This is the age of the housing project. Which is always a prelude to the age of the cave.

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.