Thomas Jefferson Quotes About Architecture

• The genius of architecture seems to have shed its maledictions over this land.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Land, Genius, Architecture

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.172, Penguin

• The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Virginia, Boards, Ugly

• A country whose buildings are of wood, can never increase in its improvements to any considerable degree.... Whereas when buildings are of durable materials, every new edifice is an actual and permanent acquisition to the state, adding to its value as well as to its ornament.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Degrees, Ornaments

  Thomas Jefferson (1832). “Notes on the State of Virginia”, p.162

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