Architecture Quote by John Ruskin

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. It is no doubt a sublimer effort of genius than the Greek style; but…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In one point of view, Gothic is not only the best, but the only rational architecture, as being that which can fit itself most…

— John Ruskin

I am always surprised by how much little emphasis schools of architecture, and indeed, many architects, place on the process of the mating of…

— Norman Foster

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the…

— Alain de Botton

Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as…

— Louis Sullivan

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.

— John Ruskin

“I believe that the characteristic or moral elements of Gothic are the following, placed in the order of their importance: 1. Savageness; 2. Changefulness;…

— John Ruskin

“Thus the continuation of the master tutor and willing servant students, the privileging of the visual, the inculcation of absurd modes of behaviour (sleep…

— Nishat Awan

“Architectural education is notably under-theorised as an underlying discipline, though is clearly intensely theorised as a set of surface actions. It has remained largely…

— Tatjiana Schneider Nishat Awan Jeremy Till

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

“Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular strenuous demands upon us. It requires that we open ourselves to the idea that we are affected…

— Alain de Botton