Structural Beauty Quotes

I have found among my papers a sheet . . . in which I call architecture frozen music.

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.

Architecture struck me between the eye and the eyeball.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

The best engineer a few decades ago was someone who could create the most beautiful beam or structure; today it's to do a structure you cannot see or understand how it's done. It disappears and you can talk only about color, symbols, and light. It's an aesthetic of miracle.

I have never collected an object or figure from Africa or Oceania because of anything curious about it or because of its utility or historic interest. Everything has been chosen entirely because of its aesthetic significance; its form, feeling, structure, and plastic values.

Architecture concerns itself only with those characters of an edifice which are above and beyond its common use.

I have always been very intrigued by the outside of buildings. I can just walk down the street and be content with watching facades. I don't have to go inside.

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.

Vogue has always loved the design and structure of bridges and she loves Albert Bridge, which we live right next to.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.