#architecture

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

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul. ↗

— Louis Kahn

#architecture #belongs #college #does #every

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. ↗

— Voltaire

#architecture #beasts #built #fight #greatest

That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#architecture #brand #course #does #drawings

I'd like to do a lot of things - whether in design or architecture or business. ↗

— Caroline Wozniacki

#business #design #i #like #lot

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. ↗

— Minoru Yamasaki

#copied #country #europe #japanese #japanese architecture

That not all men are piggy, only some; that not all men belittle me, only some; that not all men get mad if you won’t let them play Chivalry, only some; that not all men write books in which women are idiots, only most; that not all men pull rank on me, only some; that not all men pinch their secretaries’ asses, only some; that not all men make obscene remarks to me in the street, only some; that not all men make more money than I do, only some; that not all men make more money than all women, only most; that not all men are rapists, only some; that not all men are promiscuous killers, only some; that not all men control Congress, the Presidency, the police, the army, industry, agriculture, law, science, medicine, architecture, and local government, only some. I sat down on the lawn and wept. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#patriarchy #sexism #architecture