List of Prizes, Medals, and Awards in Sri Lanka - Architecture and Construction

Famous quotes containing the words architecture and, architecture and/or construction:

“The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extrahuman architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.”
—Federico García Lorca (1898–1936)

“It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)

“There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)