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The two great rules for design are these: 1st, that there should be no features about a building which are not necessary for convenience, construction or propriety; 2nd, that all ornament should consist of the essential construction of the building. The neglect of these two rules is the cause of all the bad architecture of the present time.

Augustus Welby Pugin

1841

★ 0.9

Autobiography and memoir

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

Frank Lloyd Wright

1932

★ 1.0

Essay · Travel writing

Light (God's eldest daughter), is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller (churchman)

The Holy State and the Profane State · 1642

★ 1.1

In architecture as in all other operative arts, the end must direct the operation. The end is to build well. Well building hath three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.

1624

★ 1.8

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

1953

★ 1.9

Novel · Detective fiction

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport."

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul · 1988

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

Architecture aims at Eternity.

Christopher Wren

On Architecture · 1680

★ 2.0

Speech · Political speech

We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.

Winston Churchill

1943

★ 2.1

TV program · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

Windows are the eyes to the house.

Parks and Recreation · 2012

★ 2.1

Philosophical literature

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

1932

★ 3.5

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

King Charles III

1987

★ 3.5

Lecture · Philosophical literature

Architecture in general is frozen music.

Friedrich von Schelling

1803

★ 3.6

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men.

Frank Lloyd Wright

1958

★ 3.7

I call architecture frozen music.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1829

★ 3.8

A house is a machine for living in.

Toward an Architecture · 1923

★ 7.2