Architecture Quote by Anthony Powell

“The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows.…

— David Sedaris

“We stared at the house for a while. The weird thing about houses is that they almost look like nothing is happening inside of…

— John Green

Architecture, either practically considered or viewed as an art of taste, is a subject so important and comprehensive in itself, that volumes would be…

— Andrew Jackson Downing

“On the other side, apartment blocks—intact except for the fronts, which had been completely blown off, revealing the rooms and furniture within—stood like giant…

— Rhidian Brook

“The house appeared just as cozy and welcoming as the first time I saw it. Now, though, I knew what I was seeing was…

— Marianna Baer

“The notion of buildings that speak helps us to place at the very centre of our architectural conundrums the question of the values we…

— Alain de Botton

The weird thing about houses is that they almost always look like nothing is happening inside of them, even though they contain most of…

— John Green

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

“Inside the wall were the large homes of the wealthy, with terraces, orchards, and vineyards. Pointed arches were everywhere—arched doorways, arched windows, arched garden…

— Noah Gordon

“architecture to spiritually uplift and thought it was a very bad idea to build functional, uninspired blocks of flats that would depress both their…

— Menna van Praag

At times we would have these whole cities that would take up rooms and stretch out all over the house. But they were also…

— Ellen Gallagher

These houses had been plunked down with an alarming randomness -- unevenly spaced, on crooked lines, like whoever had designed the place had said,…

— Maureen Johnson