Architecture Quote by Nikolaus Pevsner Download Open image “A bicycle shed is a building; Lincoln Cathedral is a piece of architecture.” — Nikolaus Pevsner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Bicycle Shed Building Lincoln Cathedral Piece Lincoln Cathedral Shed Building
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi Copy Share Image
Cathedrals are built with pennies of the faithful. A great opera house also is a spiritual center, a temple of sorts, where many gather… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
Great architecture is not just about buildings like the Shard or the Guggenheim - it can be a caravan, castle, boat or house. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson Copy Share Image
The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness. — Oscar Niemeyer Copy Share Image
Architecture is either the prophecy of an unformed society or the tomb of a finished one. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Buildings are storytellers. They teach us about our history, good and bad. They tell stories about people. — George Clarke Copy Share Image
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
In a strange way, architecture is really an unfinished thing, because even though the building is finished, it takes on a new life. It… — Daniel Libeskind 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
