We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 quotes from Minoru Yamasaki
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
68 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 sayings from John Osborne
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 thoughts from Minoru Yamasaki
The higher the building the lower the morals.
3 sayings from Noel Coward
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
4 quotes from Adolf Loos
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 other thoughts from Adolf Loos
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
12 wisdom & wit from Thomas a Kempis
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
13 more thoughts from Stephen Gardiner
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
13 more views from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 other quotes from Robert Smithson
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 quotes from Julia Morgan
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 other views from Thomas Fuller
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 sayings from Stephen Gardiner
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
What people want, above all, is order.
13 thoughts from Stephen Gardiner
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
36 other quotes from Lord Byron
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
2 sayings from Julia Morgan
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 thoughts from Ernest Dimnet
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
24 thoughts from Ayn Rand
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
2 other views from Constantin Brancusi
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
4 quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 more thoughts from Louis Kahn
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 quotes from Arne Jacobsen
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
45 quotes from John Ruskin
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
45 sayings from John Ruskin
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
4 other quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 other views from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
5 wisdom & wit from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 more views from Luis Barragan
Less is more.
5 other thoughts from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 more quotes from Luis Barragan
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 other wisdom & wit from Thomas Reid
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
5 thoughts from Martha Graham
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
52 more wisdom & wit from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 thoughts from Salvador Dali
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
5 quotes from Charles Eames
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
26 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
26 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright
An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
26 more views from Frank Lloyd Wright
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
2 thoughts from William Bennett
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
117 more views from Henry David Thoreau
I am but an architectural composer.
2 thoughts from Alexander Jackson Davis
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
2 quotes from Alexander Jackson Davis
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
35 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
16 more thoughts from Coco Chanel
Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
2 quotes from Daniel Burnham
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 quotes from Louis Sullivan
Form follows function.
2 thoughts from Louis Sullivan
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
24 quotes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
5 quotes from Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
5 other quotes from Le Corbusier
A house is a machine for living in.
5 other quotes from Le Corbusier
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
78 more quotes from Voltaire
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill