In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building has three conditions: Commodity, Firmness and Delight.

Quote by Henry Watton

Topics: Architecture Quotes

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as...

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Means must be subsidiary to ends and to our desire for dignity and value.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in...

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

A man that has a taste of music, painting, or architecture, is like one that...

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building...

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

Our architecture reflects truly as a mirror.

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

The long path from material through function to creative work has only one goal: to...

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture....

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

Architects are pretty much high-class whores. We can turn down projects the way they can...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles,...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the...

An important work of architecture will create polemics.

An important work of architecture will create polemics.