Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
2 more views from Daniel Burnham
Form follows function.
2 quotes from Louis Sullivan
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 views from Louis Sullivan
A house is a machine for living in.
5 views from Le Corbusier
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects.
5 other quotes from Le Corbusier
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
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
74 quotes from Winston Churchill
The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in.
78 more views from Voltaire
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 views from Minoru Yamasaki
We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 other sayings from Minoru Yamasaki
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 views from Adolf Loos
The higher the building the lower the morals.
3 wisdom & wit from Noel Coward
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 quotes from Samuel Butler
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 views from John Osborne
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
4 more wisdom & wit from Adolf Loos
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 views from Stephen Gardiner
What people want, above all, is order.
13 quotes 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 sayings from Lord Byron
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
13 views from Stephen Gardiner
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
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.
2 other views from Julia Morgan
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 more views from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 quotes from Robert Smithson
Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
3 other views from Ernest Dimnet
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 wisdom & wit from Julia Morgan
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 quotes from Thomas Fuller
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 sayings from Stephen Gardiner
Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.
3 sayings from Louis Kahn
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 other quotes from John Ruskin
Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life.
4 other sayings from Arne Jacobsen
I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
24 quotes from Ayn Rand
Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
2 quotes 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 other sayings from Arne Jacobsen
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 sayings from Ayn Rand
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 quotes from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.
45 thoughts from John Ruskin
Less is more.
5 other views from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 sayings from Luis Barragan
I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one.
5 other quotes from Luis Barragan
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 views from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
5 more sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 wisdom & wit from Thomas Reid
All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
52 other views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
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 quotes from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 quotes from Salvador Dali
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.
26 more quotes 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 other 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 views from Frank Lloyd Wright
In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
5 more sayings from Charles Eames
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
26 quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
117 sayings from Henry David Thoreau
All real education is the architecture of the soul.
2 views from William Bennett
I am but an architectural composer.
2 thoughts from Alexander Jackson Davis
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
35 wisdom & wit from Ernest Hemingway
I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
2 quotes from Alexander Jackson Davis
Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions.
16 quotes from Coco Chanel