Russell Lynes Quotes

I'm very interested in architecture.

I love architecture.

I cannot look at modern buildings without thinking of historical ones.

If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.

After about the first Millennium, Italy was the cradle of Romanesque architecture, which spread throughout Europe, much of it extending the structural daring with minimal visual elaboration.

I never built houses, only apartments.

The American attitude towards efficiency and execution should always underlie architecture.

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.

By 1970, the first stirrings of the revolt against Modernist orthodoxy in architecture had been felt, although it would be several years more until Postmodernism was widely accepted and made classical motifs permissible in high-style building design for the first time in decades.

I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

From when I was about seven, I thought I wanted to be an architect. I've always loved spaces and dwellings in general.

The oldest book I have is a treatise on architecture from the 17th century.

I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture.

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

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

I'm a trained architect. Both my parents were architects.

I'd never known of an architect as a young man. I think there was only one architect in Tucuman.

In China, it's very easy to make architecture special because anything you design will look different, as most parts of the city are very similar. They make so many massive residential buildings.

When I started university, I didn't know much about architecture, so I flipped through a lot of magazines, looking at different and exciting images from all over the world. I thought that architecture could be interesting.

The most important part of my work on The Orion Building was the creation within the apartments of living space which inspires people and the way they live their lives, whether they have bought a one-bedroom apartment or the penthouse. This building is beautiful to see, sense, and experience.

There are a great many things about architecture that are hidden from the untrained eye.

What impressed me most about New York were its huge apartment houses.

You can't escape the influence of architectural history.

To sum up the state of architecture in America: ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.