Ezra Pound Quotes

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

Buildings designed with careful attention to aesthetics arouse and enlighten their occupants and that promotes their good health.

Purpose is not necessary to make a building beautiful.

When I started studying architecture, people would say, you know, 'Can you tell me why are all modern buildings so boring?' Because, like, people had this idea that in the good old days, architecture had, like, ornament and little towers and spires and gargoyles, and today, it just becomes very practical.

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

If the design of the building be originally bad, the only virtue it can ever possess will be signs of antiquity.

All architecture, classical or not, must have some sense of order, and order is much harder to achieve without the straight lines and right angles that have dominated the building art from time immemorial.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings.

I'm very interested in architecture.

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Good design doesn't date. Bad design does.

And exciting buildings are fine periodically.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

Good design doesn't date.

The building's identity resided in the ornament.

I think people care. If not, why do so many people spend money going on vacations to see architecture? They go to the Parthenon, to Chartres, to the Sydney Opera House. They go to Bilbao... Something compels them, and yet we live surrounded by everything but great architecture.

We are creating a unique experience. It's starts with how you see the building from a distance.

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.

Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

If it's extravagant, colorful and detailed, it catches my eye.

Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.

The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.