Architecture Quote by Cal Newport

“wasn’t that the way with every builder? No one had all the skills. You come in as a carpenter and they want more and…

— Derek Smith

As regards the efficacy of the art and the theories of it, I promise and expect that in these volumes I shall undoubtedly show…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“In the 1930s, with no computers to precisely calculate tolerances of construction materials, cautious engineers simply heaped on excess mass and redundancy. “We’re living…

— Alan Weisman

“The architect, like other workers in our endeavor, is facing the inevitability of a change of profession: he [sic] will no longer be a…

— Tom McDonough

The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.

— Oscar Niemeyer

Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We forget the importance of engineering, but it's been used to design everything from St. Paul's Cathedral to The Shard.

— Dick Strawbridge

“A building has integrity, just as a man and just as seldom! It must be true to its own idea, have its own form,…

— Ayn Rand

“Say on, sayers! sing on, singers! Delve! mould! pile the words of the earth! Work on, age after age, nothing is to be lost,…

— Walt Whitman

It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of significance but the circumstance that antique…

— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

“Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire,…

— Alan Weisman

That is the way a great master carpenter feels, or an architect or composer or anyone who creates anything - people want to be…

— David Amram