ARCHITECTURE

Related Subjects: Art, Building

1. Architecture is preeminently the art of significant forms in space—that is, forms significant of their functions.—CLAUDE BRAGDON, Wake Up and Dream
   

2. A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a sheet of paper.—DICKENS, Martin Chuzzlewit
   

3. There is no architect
   Can build as the Muse can .. . . . .
   She lays her beams in music,
   In music every one,
   To the cadence of the whirling world
   Which dances round the sun.—EMERSON, The House
   

4. An arch never sleeps.—JAMES FERGUSSON, History of Indian and Eastern Architecture
   

5. Too many stairs and backdoors makes thieves and whores.—BALTHAZAR GERBIER, Discourse of Building
   

6. Architecture is frozen music.—GOETHE, Conversations with Eckermann
   

7. Architecture,
   Existing in itself, and not in seeming
   A something it is not, surpasses them
   As substance shadow.—LONGFELLOW, Michael Angelo
   

8. The architect
   Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
   And with him toiled his children, and their lives
   Were builded, with his own, into the walls,
   As offerings unto God.—LONGFELLOW, The Golden Legend
   

9. In the architectural structure, man's pride, man's triumph over gravitation, man's will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.—NIETZSCHE, The Twilight of the Idols
   

10. The surest test of the civilization of a people—at least, as sure as any—afforded by mechanical art is to be found in their architecture, which presents so noble a field for the display of the grand and the beautiful, and which, at the same time, is so intimately connected with the essential comforts of life.—PRESCOTT, The Conquest of Peru

11. Architecture is the work of nations.—RUSKIN, True and Beautiful
    

12. Whenever men have become skilled architects at all, there has been a tendency in them to build high.—RUSKIN, Lectures on Architecture and Painting
    

13. Architecture aims at Eternity; and therefore is the only thing incapable of modes and fashions in its principles.—CHRISTOPHER WREN, Parentalia
    

14. Architectural values are human values or they are not valuable. So any true modern building is born of organic integration and rises, as the modern city rises, enemy to centralization in whatever form. Both building and city are now true sun-growth and true sun-acceptance or not modern. The building itself may be a shaft of light flashing in the sun.—FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, The Disappearing City