Architecture Quote by Ada Louise Huxtable

There's a kind of beauty to a skyscraper.

— Lisa Joy

“The beauty of modern cities consists in a sense of their power, cruelty, impersonality, massiveness, + variety (as in New York or London) seen…

— Susan Sontag

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but…

— George Gershwin

“I stop in my tracks to look up, completely disrupting the flow of tourist traffic. It’s directly in front of me, in all its…

— Kristin Rae

Beautiful buildings are more than scientific. They are true organisms, spiritually conceived; works of art, using the best technology by inspiration rather than the…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will…

— Gustave Eiffel

The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“Less than a decade after the Great Exhibition, iron as a structural material was finished—which makes it slightly odd that the most iconic structure…

— Bill Bryson

Moller, in his Essay on Architecture, taught that the building which was fitted accurately to answer its end would turn out to be beautiful,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of…

— David Allan Coe

The difficulty with big cities does not lie in skyscrapers or high-rises per se; rather, it is the values concealed within those buildings which…

— Ma Yansong