Architecture Light Quotes

#1. The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light.

Le Corbusier

#2. The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.

Stephen Gardiner

#3. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

#4. Western cathedrals and abbeys ... through soaring Gothic architecture, [give] us at floor level a sense of belonging within (but unable at the moment to inhabit more than a little of) great spaces of light and beauty, into which, significantly, only our music can penetrate.

N. T. Wright

#5. My architecture tends to be legible, light and flexible. You can read it. You look at a building, and you can see how it is constructed. I put the structure outside.

Richard Rogers

#6. Light inspires me. I'm drawn to architecture, often graves, statues, trees - things usually that are quite still. I've been taking pictures continuously since 1995 until the end of Polaroid film. I'm taking very few pictures nowadays because I have very little film left, most of it expired.

Patti Smith

#7. Scribal culture and Gothic architecture were both concerned with light through, not light on.

Marshall McLuhan

#8. A Gothic building engenders true religion ... The light, falling through colored glass, the singular forms of the architecture, unite to give a silent image of that infinite mystery which the soul for ever feels, and never comprehends.

Madame De Stael

#9. Architecture is the masterly, correct, and magnificent play of masses brought together in light. Our eyes are made to see forms in light: light and shade reveal these forms.

Le Corbusier

#10. My hope is that light, flexible architecture might bring about a new and open society.

Frei Otto

#11. When I think of a place of worship, I think of a place where one can sit and be reminded of all the things that are important outside our individual lives. To express spirituality, the architect has to think of the original material of architecture, space and light.

Richard Meier

#12. Architecture which enters into a symbiosis with light does not merely create form in light, by day and at night, but allow light to become form.

Richard Meier

#13. It was the drawing that led me to architecture, the search for light and astonishing forms.

Oscar Niemeyer

#14. Billy switched on a floor lamp. The light from the single source threw the baroque detailing of Montana's body into sharp relief. Billy was reminded of fantastic architecture in Dresden, before it was bombed.

Kurt Vonnegut

#15. Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

Luc De Clapiers

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

Ezra Pound

#17. For me, the excitement in architecture revolves around the idea and the phenomenon of the experience of that idea. Residences offer almost immediate gratification. You can shape space, light, and materials to a degree that you sometimes can't in larger projects.

Steven Holl

#18. Light must always win.

Maurice Smith

#19. Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Thomas Fuller

#20. Modern architecture predominately specializes in designing what are essentially dimly lit caves.

Steven Magee

#21. We find beauty not in the thing itself but in the patterns of shadows, the light and the darkness, that one thing against another creates.

Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

#22. The drama embraces and applies all the beauties and decorations of poetry. The sister arts attend and adorn it. Painting, architecture, and music are her handmaids. The costliest lights of a people's intellect burn at her show. All ages welcome her.

Robert Aris Willmott

#23. Architecture is the learned game; correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light

Le Corbusier

#24. Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.

Leon Krier