#architecture

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#place #should #speak #time #timelessness

Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city. ↗

— Frank Gehry

#city #each #happen #i #i think

I see architecture not as Gropius did, as a moral venture, as truth, but as invention, in the same way that poetry or music or painting is invention. ↗

— Michael Graves

#did #i #i see #invention #moral

If I have a style, I am not aware of it. ↗

— Michael Graves

#am #aware #i #i am #style

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that. ↗

— Levon Helm

#architecture #doubt #love #musical #no doubt

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. ↗

— John Irving

#building #craft #i #never #novel

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. ↗

— Philip Johnson

#contains #design #exalts #great #persons

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#begin #being #building #designed #end

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#out #reaching #truth

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#became #column #consider #event #momentous