Once you learn to look at architecture not merely as an art more or less well or more or less badly done, but as a social manifestation, the critical eye becomes clairvoyant.
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Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being.
The secret of good architecture is having more than meets the eye.
Architecture is the story of how we see ourselves. It is the architect's job to service everyday life.
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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 into the architecture, or it isn't real.
It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.
The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.
Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.
Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.