#architecture

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#class #poverty #society #architecture

I call architecture frozen music. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#call #frozen #i #music

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. ↗

— Thom Mayne

#buildings #means #own #speak #their

If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

#escape #everything #hors #into #led

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design. ↗

— Herbert Simon

#business #concerned #contingent #design #engineering

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun. ↗

— James Stewart

#architect #architecture #back #because #college

Form follows function. ↗

— Louis Sullivan

#follows #form #function

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#inhabited #sculpture

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. ↗

— Arne Jacobsen

#architecture #becomes #building #then

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. ↗