#architecture

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#gothic #imaginable #infinity #made #principle

Less is more. ↗

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

#less #less is more #more

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. ↗

— Alexander Jackson Davis

#american #any #architect #buildings #designed

Our sadness won’t be of the searing kind but more like a blend of joy and melancholy: joy at the perfection we see before us, melancholy at an awareness of how seldom we are sufficiently blessed to encounter anything of its kind. The flawless object throws into perspective the mediocrity that surrounds it. We are reminded of the way we would wish things always to be and of how incomplete our lives remain. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#art #happiness #life #melancholy #sadness

We are bored in the city, to still discover mysteries on the signs along the street, latest state of humor and poetry, requires getting damned tired... Gilles Ivain (aka Ivan Chtcheglov) ↗

— Tom McDonough

#architecture

I have no requirements for a style of architecture. ↗

— Michael Graves

#i #requirements #style

In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. ↗

— Michael Graves

#any #between #equity #function #pragmatic

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#architecture

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t. ↗