Philip Johnson made a famous statement about one of those magazines that photographs the extravagant homes, sumptuous apartments and unbelievable furniture of the wealthy. He said the magazines were pornography for architects. When you think about it, almost everything in American life is pornography for some special group, whether its car buffs or house buffs […]
Architect - Architecture Quotes
Architecture is frozen music.
Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music.
The architecture of our future is not only unfinished; the scaffolding has hardly gone up.
Women are the real architects of society.
Anthropos apteros for days Walked whistling round and round the maze, Relying happily upon His temperament for getting on. The hundredth time he sighted, though, A bush he left an hour ago, He halted where four alleys crossed And recognised that he was lost. ‘Where am I? Metaphysics says No question can be asked unless […]
Novel buildings of cutting-edge architects are often trumpeted as “bold” and “challenging,” the assumption being that the architect, less repressed than the rest of us, has a truer philosophical grip on life. By this reasoning, resistance from the public only confirms that the artist-architect is ahead of everybody else. In practice, an architect who pictures […]
Form ever follows function.
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.
Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
