#architect

Charles was very intent to use his years as Prince of Wales to make his mark while he still had freedom of maneuver that he wouldn't have as King. The first subject he really went for was architecture. It made an impact. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charles #first #freedom #had #his

I personally felt that his ad hominen attacks on British architects were not the sort of thing a Prince of Wales should be doing because, apart from anything else, they put various people out of business. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#anything #apart #architects #attacks #because

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#built #competition #design #did #financially

Information and inspiration are everywhere... history, art, architecture, everything an illustrator needs. Europe is, after all, the land that has generated most of the enduring myths and legends of Western culture. ↗

— John Howe

#architecture #art #culture #enduring #europe

All real education is the architecture of the soul. ↗

— William Bennett

#education #real #real education #soul

All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#architecture #art #fireworks #great #like

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real. ↗

— Frank Stella

#chaos #fully #human #human personality #into

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#beauty #building #construction #foundation #look

A house is a machine for living in. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#house #living #machine

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. ↗

— Le Corbusier

#create #function #objects #order #put