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Famous Architecture Quotes
Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms. – Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistakes. – Luis Barragan
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. – Arthur Erickson
We need houses as we need clothes, architecture stimulates fashion. It’s like hunger and thirst you need them both. – Karl Lagerfeld
Whatever good things we build end up building us. – Jim Rohn
Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves. – Julia Morgan
Form ever follows function. – Louis Sullivan
Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. – Charles Eames
An idea is salvation by imagination. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Less is more. – Mies van der Rohe
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Rem Koolhaas
A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness. – Frank Gehry
When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I’ve finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it’s wrong. – Buckminster Fuller
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. – Norman Foster
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. – Daniel Libeskind
To create, one must first question everything. – Eileen Gray
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. – Leonardo da Vinci
There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? – Zaha Hadid
I don’t know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. – Frank Gehry
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. – Frank Lloyd Wright
My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even better, form follows feminine. – Oscar Niemeyer
I call architecture frozen music. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There is begins. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light. – Le Corbusier
Good buildings come from good people and all problems are solved by good design. – Stephen Gardiner
Each new situation requires a new architecture. – Jean Nouvel
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. – Constantin Brancusi
98% of what gets built today is shit. – Frank Gehry
Architecture is an expression of values. – Norman Foster
Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. – Richard Rogers
We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. – Glenn Murcutt
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time it is like life starting all over again. – Renzo Piano
Architecture is not about space but about time. – Vito Acconel
The door handle is the handshake of the building. – Juhani Pallasmaa
The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it. – David Chipperfield
I don’t build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. – Ayn Rand
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. – Louis Kahn
God is in the details. – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. – Tadao Ando
My architecture is easy to understand and enjoy, I hope it also is hard to forget. – Oscar Niemeyer
Even a brick wants to be something. – Louis Kahn
A room is not a room without natural light. – Louis Kahn
Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life. – I.M. Pei
Build! Don’t Talk. – Ludwig Mies ven der Rohe
Architects can’t force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers and make the meeting places useful and attractive. – Denise Scott
A building is not just a place to be but a way to be. – Frank Lloyd Wright
I think architecture is one of the predominant orderings of social space. It can construct and contain our experiences. It defines our days and nights. It literally puts us in our place. – Barbara Kruger
Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in. – Leonard Baskin
Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society. – I. M. Pei
Architecture is what nature cannot make. Architecture is something unnatural but not something made up. – Louis Kahn
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person. – Zaha Hadid
I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity. – I. M. Pei
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall. – Louis Kahn
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be. – Steven Holl
Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder. – Daniel Libeskind
In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms. – Friedrich Nietzsche
Architecture is my first love, if you want to talk about what moves me the ordering of space, the visual pleasure, architecture’s power to construct our days and nights. – Barbara Kruger
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces wellbeing. – Luis Barragan
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture. – Malcolm Miller
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it’s a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that’s all. – Harry Seidler
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and, in the end, must be unmeasurable. – Louis Kahn
Architecture is the alpha principle of all arts. – Louis-Ferdinand
The hand expresses what the heart already knows. – Samuel Mockbee
The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines. – Frank Lloyd Wright
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. – Alvar Aalto
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
Architecture is the king or queen of the arts. – Gaetano Pesce
Only architecture that considers human scale and interaction is successful architecture. – Jan Gehl
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space. On the one hand it’s about shelter, but it’s also about pleasure. – Zaha Hadid
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful it gives it power. – Claudio Silvestrin
Architecture is about public space held by buildings. – Richard Rogers
Architecture begins where engineering ends. – Walter Gropius
Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfolding of its form. – Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. – Yoshio Taniguchi
Architecture can’t force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive. – Denise Scott Brown
Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place. – Juhani Pallasmaa
Architecture is a political act, by nature. It has to do with the relationships between people and how they decide to change their conditions of living. – Lebbeus Woods
We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us. – Winston Churchill
Home development is about wishful thinking. It’s about capturing a dream. Barbara Delinsky
Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can’t be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole. – Maya Lin
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. – Philip Johnson
