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

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

Nor did there want
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.

Nor did there want
Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

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

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

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

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

When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of]
Amiens, . . . he asked me how read more

When I lately stood with a friend before [the cathedral of]
Amiens, . . . he asked me how it happens that we can no longer
build such piles? I replied: "Dear Alphonse, men in those days
had convictions (Ueberzeugungen), we moderns have opinions
(Meinungen) and it requires something more than an opinion to
build a Gothic cathedral.

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

Architecture is music in space, as it were a frozen music

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.