Architecture Quote by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Download Open image “Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.” — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Arrangements Depends Economy Order Propriety Symmetry
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Now architecture consists of order, which in Greek is called taxis ... Order is the balanced adjustment of the details of the work separately,… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Copy Share Image
Architecture is basically the design of interiors, the art of organizing interior space. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
Architecture is involved with the world, but at the same time it has a certain autonomy. This autonomy cannot be explained in terms of… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“Architecture and urban design, both in their formal and spatial aspects, are seen as fundamentally configurational in that the way the parts are put… — Bill Hillier Copy Share Image
Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
It is no secret that the moon has no light of her own, but is, as it were, a mirror, receiving brightness from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Burn shavings and splinters of pitch pine, and when they turn to charcoal, put them out, and pound them into mortar with size. This… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
With the ripening of the fruits in Autumn the leaves begin to wither and the trees, taking up their sap from the earth through… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads of the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The difference between "machines" and "engines" is obviously this, that machines need more workmen and greater power to make them take effect, as for… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
The [engineer] should be equipped with knowledge of many branches of study and varied kinds of learning, for it is by his judgement that… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
All these soft kinds [of stone] have the advantage that they can be easily worked as soon as they have been taken from the… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Apollo at Delphi, through the oracular utterance of his priestess, pronounced Socrates the wisest of men. Of him it is related that he said… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
Music, also, the architect ought to understand so that he may have knowledge of the canonical and mathematical theory, and besides be able to… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
In all matters but particularly in architecture, that which is signified is the subject of which we may be speaking and that which gives… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio 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