The cosmetic is cosmic.
Rem KoolhaasTags: architecture junkspace
I don't know what London's coming to — the higher the buildings the lower the morals.
Noël CowardTags: morality architecture cities london buildings skyscrapers
The yard was a little centre of regeneration. Here, with keen edges and smooth curves, were forms in the exact likeness of those he had seen abraded and time-eaten on the walls. These were the ideas in modern prose which the lichened colleges presented in old poetry. Even some of those antiques might have been called prose when they were new. They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.
Thomas HardyTags: poetry architecture buildings
History pays no heed to the unspectacular citizen who worked hard all day and walked at night to a humble home with dust on his tunic and his flat cap. But in the end the builders have had the better of it. The miracles they accomplished in stone are still standing and still beautiful, even with the disintegration of so many centuries on them, but the battlefields where great warriors died are so encroached upon by modern villas and so befouled by the rotting remains of motorcars and the staves of oil barrels that they do not always repay a visit.
Thomas B. CostainTags: humanity war architecture
...In Jack Nasar's research on American's taste in homes, only one group preferred the modernist house: architects.
Winifred GallagherTags: architecture
The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
Christopher WrenTags: dogs architecture dachshund
Walkers are 'practitioners of the city,' for the city is made to be walked. A city is a language, a repository of possibilities, and walking is the act of speaking that language, of selecting from those possibilities. Just as language limits what can be said, architecture limits where one can walk, but the walker invents other ways to go.
Rebecca SolnitTags: language walking architecture cities possiblity
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
Henry David ThoreauTags: society class poverty architecture
Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
Robert A. HeinleinTags: dicta architecture building megalomania building-industry cheops khufu pyramids
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd WrightTags: humor architecture
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