A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 views from Ayn Rand
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
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 views from Arne Jacobsen
I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly.
4 more thoughts from Arne Jacobsen
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
24 more quotes from Ayn Rand
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 views from Louis Kahn
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
2 views from Constantin Brancusi
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
45 other sayings from John Ruskin
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
4 other views from Arne Jacobsen
Less is more.
5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 views from Luis Barragan
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 views from Luis Barragan
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 more quotes 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
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 views from Martha Graham
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
52 other views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 views from Salvador Dali
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
52 more quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
26 thoughts 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
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
5 more quotes from Charles Eames
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
26 more thoughts 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 wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright
I am but an architectural composer.
2 other thoughts from Alexander Jackson Davis
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
35 views from Ernest Hemingway
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
2 thoughts from Alexander Jackson Davis
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
2 more sayings from William Bennett
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
117 other sayings from Henry David Thoreau
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
16 more quotes 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
Form follows function.
2 other sayings from Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 quotes from Louis Sullivan
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
5 wisdom & wit from Le Corbusier
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
5 other quotes from Le Corbusier
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
24 wisdom & wit from Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A house is a machine for living in.
5 more wisdom & wit from Le Corbusier
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
78 wisdom & wit from Voltaire
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
74 other quotes from Winston Churchill
The higher the building the lower the morals.
3 more wisdom & wit from Noel Coward
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 quotes from Minoru Yamasaki
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 sayings from Adolf Loos
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 sayings from Minoru Yamasaki
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
4 quotes from Adolf Loos
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 quotes from John Osborne
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
68 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 sayings 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 quotes from Lord Byron
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
13 other thoughts from Stephen Gardiner
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
2 more quotes from Julia Morgan
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 views from Ernest Dimnet
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
13 other sayings from Stephen Gardiner
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 more sayings from Thomas Fuller
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 other quotes from Julia Morgan
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 views from Robert Smithson
The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
13 thoughts from Stephen Gardiner
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
12 quotes from Thomas a Kempis
The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
13 other quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner