Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Architecture is frozen music.
[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

Architecture is frozen music.
[Ger., Die Backunst ist eine erstarrte Musik.]

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a
sheet of paper.

A man who could build a church, as one may say, by squinting at a
sheet of paper.

An architect is the drawer of dreams

An architect is the drawer of dreams

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

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

The architect
Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
And with him toiled his children, and read more

The architect
Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
And with him toiled his children, and their lives
Were builded, with his own, into the walls,
As offerings unto God.

The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad read more

The hand that rounded Peter's dome
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;
Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew;
The conscious stone to beauty grew.

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

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

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.