Architecture Quote by A. L. Rowse Download Open image “One might regard architecture as history arrested in stone.” — A. L. Rowse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Arrested History Inspirational Might Regard Stones
“One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could learn it from books. Statues, inscriptions, memorial stones, the names of streets—anything… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Architecture is a special kind of career that showcases the accumulations of culture, time, and history. — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. — Peter Eisenman Copy Share Image
Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit… — I. M. Pei Copy Share Image
To really appreciate architecture, you may even need to commit a murder. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
“The centuries of capitalism were held to have produced nothing of value. One could not learn history from architecture any more than one could… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“All architecture is what you do to it when you look upon it; Did you think it was in the white or gray stone?… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
It’s time for architecture to do things again, not just represent things. — Joshua Prince-Ramus Copy Share Image
Since Stonehenge, architects have always been at the cutting edge of technology. And you can't separate technology from the humanistic and spiritual content of… — Norman Foster Copy Share Image
A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
“When you consider the superstitions and the imaginings of the old Cornish country-folk up to my grandmother's day, how their lives were swaddled in… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
I would never wound a cat's feelings, no matter how downright aggressive I might be to humans. — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our… — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
If there is any honor in all the world that I should like, it would be to be an honorary Jewish citizen. — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
History is a great deal closer to poetry than is generally realised: in truth, I think, it is in essence the same. — A. L. Rowse Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
