#architecture

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#am #any #architecture #cannot #church

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long. ↗

— Stephen Sprouse

#again #architecture #course #fashion #go

The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ↗

— Saul Steinberg

#become #building #draw #frightening #lines

My interest in architecture has always been sculptural. Most of my photography is of architecture. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#architecture #been #interest #most #photography

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#architecture #contribute #development #duty #feel

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. ↗

— Kenzo Tange

#architecture #heart #human #human heart #means

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#agriculture #architecture #centralized #civilization #come

While a common reaction to seeing a thing of beauty is to want to buy it, our real desire may be not so much to own what we find beautiful as to lay permanent claim to the inner qualities it embodies. Owning such an object may help us realise our ambition of absorbing the virtues to which it alludes, but we ought not to presume that those virtues will automatically or effortlessly begin to rub off on us through tenure. Endeavouring to purchase something we think beautiful may in fact be the most unimaginative way of dealing with the longing it excites in us, just as trying to sleep with someone may be the bluntest response to a feeling of love. What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#longing #architecture

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#architecture

Being an architect isn't only about construction, it's about creating wide spaces with small spaces. ↗

— Yannick Heywang

#architecture #build #building #construction #create