Architecture Quote by Louis Sullivan Download Open image “The building's identity resided in the ornament.” — Louis Sullivan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Building Identity Ornament
Ultimately, the naming of buildings is not a mechanism by which history is kept alive. It is a mechanism by which the rich and… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
“The modern architects are incorrect in their thinking. Ornament is not a crime. It is tactile, invigorating, life-sustaining, and human.” — Kristen Wagner Copy Share Image
Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I've never understood the allure of putting your name on a building that was built with taxpayers' money. — Mick Mulvaney Copy Share Image
And a building must be like a human being. It must have a wholeness about it, something that is very important. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
“With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time” — Adam P. Knave Copy Share Image
A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function — Gottfried Bohm Copy Share Image
In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building. — Minoru Yamasaki Copy Share Image
“Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Happiness and depression cannot blossom on the same vine. Some people affirm their woes and beg for sympathy. Others, unfortunately, cast gloom wherever they… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
It cannot for a moment be doubted that an art work to be alive, to awaken us to its life, to inspire us sooner… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
It is the mass dream of inverted self, populous with fears overt and secret, that forms the continuous but gossamer thread upon which are… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
How strange it seems that education, in practice, so often means suppression: that instead of leading the mind outward to the light of day… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The architect who combines in his being the powers of vision, of imagination, of intellect, of sympathy with human need and the power to… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
National Health Insurance means combining the efficiency of the Postal Service with the compassion of the I.R.S. ... and the cost accounting of the… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The chief characteristics of the tall building is that it is lofty. It must be every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising in… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
The feudal concept of self-preservation is poisoned at the core by the virulent assumption of master and man, of potentate and slave, of external… — Louis Sullivan 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. He doesn't speak the language. He holds no currency. He is a foreign man. He is surrounded by the sound, sound of cattle in the marketplace, scatterlings and orphanages. He looks around, around he sees angels… — Paul Simon Copy Share
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
