#architect

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

#building #identity #ornament #resided

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. ↗

— Yoshio Taniguchi

#basically #container #enjoy #hope #i

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#citizens #depreciate #future #just #more

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#architecture #contribute #development #duty #feel

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#architecture #heart #human #human heart #means

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean. ↗

— Michael Tilson Thomas

#architecture #classical #classical music #does #each

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

Architecture in general is frozen music. ↗

— Friedrich von Schelling

#frozen #general #music

Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. ↗

— Antonio Gaudi

#certain #color #energetic #great #making

Hoover Dam," Thalia said. "It's huge." We stood at the river's edge, looking up at a curve of concrete that loomed between the cliffs. People were walking along the top of the dam. They were so tiny they looked like fleas. The naiads had left with a lot of grumbling—not in words I could understand, but it was obvious they hated this dam blocking up their nice river. Our canoes floated back downstream, swirling in the wake from the dam's discharge vents. "Seven hundred feet tall," I said. "Built in the 1930s." "Five million cubic acres of water," Thalia said. Graver sighed. "Largest construction project in the United States." Zoe stared at us. "How do you know all that?" "Annabeth," I said. "She liked architecture." "She was nuts about monuments," Thalia said. "Spouted facts all the time." Grover sniffled. "So annoying." "I wish she were here," I said. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#grover-underwood #percy-jackson #thalia-grace #zoe-nightshade #architecture