Pastoral Resources

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.

I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission... (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.

Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.

Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you.

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture.

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.