Boxes Quote by Gaston Bachelard

The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls, but in the space within to be lived in.

— Laozi

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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

Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.

— Victor Hugo

“The reality of the building does not consist of the roof and walls, but the space within to be lived.”

— Lao Tzu

A house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his spiritual emanation.

— Eileen Gray

No house exists in a vacuum. External factors affect them, whether it's the climate or time.

— Bryan Baeumler

A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are…

— Margaret Fuller

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains…

— Arthur Erickson

Architecture is not about space but about time.

— Vito Acconci

Houses are fundamental metaphors for self, world, permeability, transition, interiority, exteriority, multiplicity, and the power to move from one state of being to another.

— Jane Hirshfield

However infinite the Universe may be, our true and practical universe is still the surroundings of the house we live in.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan