Architecture Quote by Luis Barragan Download Open image “Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.” — Luis Barragan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Architecture and design Ass Bad ass Badass Doe Failure Mistake Serenity
All architecture, which does not express serenity, fails in its spiritual mission. Thus, it has been a mistake to abandon the shelter of walls… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Somehow, architecture alters the way we think about the world and the way we behave. Any serious architecture, as a litmus test, has to… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
“serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. — Louis Kahn Copy Share Image
If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good. — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler Copy Share Image
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change. — Bill Crawford Copy Share Image
The problem with architecture is it goes with the territory, because it's an applied art and because you're messing about with people and their… — Peter Clewes Copy Share Image
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature. In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
“Architecture is an art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this enviroment produces well being” — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
A garden must combine the poetic and he mysterious with a feeling of serenity and joy — Luis Barragan 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
