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