Quotes About Architecture

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

Any work of architecture that has with it some discussion, some polemic, I think is good. It shows that people are interested, people are involved.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

The architecture of our future is not only unfinished the scaffolding has hardly gone up.