Architecture And Art

Architecture, of all the

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. Ernest Dimnet

Always design a thing

Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan. Eliel Saarinen

Architecture should speak of

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. Frank Gehry

The physician can bury

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright

You can\’t make an

You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the triumph

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth Frank Lloyd Wright

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use … Read more

The mother art is

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright

There are three forms

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk around, and architecture is art you can walk through Dan Rice

I’d been to Stourhead

I’d been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called ‘Not Sculpture Park,’ because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down. Charles … Read more