An arch never sleeps.

An arch never sleeps.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons read more

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.

Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.

Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.

Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there.

There will never be great architects or great architecture
without great patrons.

There will never be great architects or great architecture
without great patrons.

There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows and read more

There was King Bradmond's palace,
Was never none richer, the story says:
For all the windows and the walls
Were painted with gold, both towers and halls;
Pillars and doors all were of brass;
Windows of latten were set with glass;
It was so rich in many wise,
That it was like a paradise.