Architecture Quote by Louis Kahn Download Open image “Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.” — Louis Kahn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Wall
Partition is after all only an old fortress of crumbled masonry - held together with the plaster of fiction. — Eamon de Valera Copy Share Image
One has to keep in mind the countless human tragedies that played out in these days. Through the middle of a city, where several… — Willy Brandt Copy Share Image
The imperial vastness of late Roman architecture was made possible by the invention of concrete. — Iain McGilchrist Copy Share Image
History and memory share events; that is, they share time and space. Every moment is two moments. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
“Such a great shift in the world in those initial centuries, so many working to move past war, to heal, that the wall …… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
“In architecture volume can be seen to be either a portion of space contained and defined by wall, floor and ceiling or roof planes… — Francis D.K. Ching Copy Share Image
A piece of wall can be visually disintegrated from the whole into a separate triangle by plunging a diagonal of light from edge to… — Dan Flavin Copy Share Image
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories. — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
Even a room which must be dark needs at least a crack of light to know how dark it is. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses… — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
We are born of light. The seasons are felt through light. We only know the world as it is evoked by light. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image