The phenomenon of architecture is a development of the phenomenon of man.

-Allsop, (Harold) Bruce
  A Modern Theory of  Architecture.

Harrow the house of the dead; look shining at New styles of architecture, a change of heart.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'Sir, No Man's Enemy'.

Ghastly Good Taste, or a depressing story of the rise and fall of English architecture.

-Betjeman, SirJohn
  Title and sub-title of book.

A total work of art is only possible in the context of the whole of society. Everyone will be a necessary co- creator of a social architecture, and, so long as anyone cannot participate, the ideal form of democracy has not beenreached.Whether peopleare artists, assemblers of machines or nurses, it is a matter of participating in the whole.

-Beuys,Joseph
  From an interview with G  Jappe (translated by J Wheelwright), in Studio International, vol.184, no.950, Dec. Quoted in C Harrison and P  Wood (eds)  Art in Theory1900^1990 (1992).

Architecture cannot be understood without some knowledge of the society it serves.

-Casson, Sir Hugh Maxwell
  An Introduction to Victorian  Architecture.

   Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

-Chanel, Gabrielle known as  Coco
Quoted in Marcel Haedrich Coco Chanel: Her Life, Her Secrets (1972), ch.1 (translated by Charles Lam Markmann).

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  In the Toronto Star Weekly, 4 Mar.

   You can't learn architecture any more than you can learn a sense of music or of painting.You shouldn't talk about art, you should do it.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

They saya building isgood architecture if it works.Of course, this is poppycock. All buildings work† You expect anyarchitect, a graduate of Harvard or not, to be able to put the kitchen in the right place.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

It's got to be clear, back in your own mind, that serving the client is onething and theart of architectureanother.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

Surelyarchitecture is the organization for pleasure of enclosed space. And what more magnificent enclosure than a town, a place, a place where the spirit is cuddled, made serene, made proud, happy, or excited depending on the ceremony, the day, the hour.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Seven Crutches of  Architecture', informal talk to students, School of  Architectural Design, Harvard University, 7 Dec. Published in Perspecta 3 (1955).

   The automobile is the greatest catastrophe in the entire history of City architecture.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  'The Town and the  Automobile or the Pride of Elm Street', published in Writings (1979).

   Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

-Johnson, Philip Cortelyou
  In the NewYork Times, 27 Dec.

It is a question of building which is at the root of the social unrest of today: architecture or revolution.

-Le Corbusier pseudonym of  Charles EŁ  douard Jeanneret
  Vers une architecture (translated as Towards a New Architecture,1927).

Architecture provides the framework for a civilization (housing, work, leisure, circulation); so architecture is also town planning. It is no longer possible to separate architecture and town planningötheyare one and the same thing.

-Le Corbusier pseudonym of  Charles EŁ  douard Jeanneret
  'If I had to teach you architecture'. Collected in Dennis Sharp (ed)  The Rationalists: Theory and Design in the Modern Movement (1978).

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

-Lutyens, Sir Edwin Landseer
  In Country Life, 8 May.

Architecture is an art which is basically geometrical. The cube is the basis of architecture because the right angle is necessaryöthe steps of a staircase consist of vertical and horizontal planes and the corners of rooms are nearly always right angles.We need right angles. 542

-Mallet-Stevens, Robert
  'Architecture and Geometry', in Bulletin de la Vie Moderne, Paris.

Nature that framed us of four elements, Warring within our breasts for regiment, Doth teach us all to have aspiring minds: Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.

-Marlowe, Christopher
  Tamburlaine the Great (published1590), pt.1, act 2, sc.7.

Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

-Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig
  De Stijl, vol.6.

The Fujiyama of Architecture†at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

-Mumford, Lewis
  Of Frank Lloyd Wright.'A Phoenix Too Infrequent', in the NewYorker, 28 Nov.