#architecture

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead. ↗

— Hayden Christensen

#find #hollywood #i #instead #interesting

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#buildings #our #shape #thereafter #us

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

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 mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

#art #civilization #mother #our #own

Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of Western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process. ↗

— Kenneth Clark

#architecture #been #could #foreseen #gothic