Architecture Quote by Ben Aaronovitch

“I'm not a garden expert in any sense of the meaning, only someone who blunders about in the shrubbery.”

— Mirabel Osler

First you must find... another shrubbery! (dramatic chord) Then, when you have found the shrubbery, you must place it here, beside this shrubbery, only…

— Anonymous

“We want...a SHRUBBERY! One that's nice. And not too expensive.”

— Monty Python and the Holy Grail

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

— Willa Cather

Other people have shrubbery in their gardens. You have a bottomless pit.

— Cassandra Clare

I began to see new buildings, too, which were connected by futuristic walkways lit from beneath. Long, cool perspectives of modern architecture, rising phosphorescent…

— Donna Tartt

The architectural profession gave the public 50 years of modern architecture and the public's response has been 10 years of the greatest wave of…

— George E Hartman

Chaoyang Park Plaza is about how to carry the traditional culture into a new format in modern architecture. Instead of building a boundary between…

— Ma Yansong

A modern, harmonic and lively architecture is the visible sign of authentic democracy.

— Walter Gropius

All architecture is great architecture after sunset.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It is my trade," he said. "I work for the bean family, and every day there are deaths among the beans, mostly from thirst.…

— Janet Frame

“Modern architecture has the potential to send you to an early grave.”

— Steven Magee

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as…

— Roger Waters

In the '60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them…

— Christian de Portzamparc