We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
3 more sayings 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 wisdom & wit from Samuel Butler
Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building.
2 quotes from John Osborne
Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe.
3 quotes from Minoru Yamasaki
The higher the building the lower the morals.
3 quotes from Noel Coward
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise.
4 other sayings from Adolf Loos
The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
4 quotes from Adolf Loos
The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.
12 views from Thomas a Kempis
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 logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.
13 other wisdom & wit 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 other quotes from Stephen Gardiner
The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
13 other sayings from Stephen Gardiner
Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues.
3 quotes from Robert Smithson
Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner
My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone.
2 views from Julia Morgan
Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
45 other quotes from Thomas Fuller
Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community.
13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner
Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
13 other quotes 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 more 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 more views from Ernest Dimnet
A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom.
24 thoughts 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 views 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 views from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
3 quotes from Louis Kahn
If a building becomes architecture, then it is art.
4 wisdom & wit 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 more views 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 views from Arne Jacobsen
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
5 wisdom & wit from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
5 sayings from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.
5 more wisdom & wit from Luis Barragan
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
The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.
3 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 quotes 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 views from Gilbert K. Chesterton
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
11 wisdom & wit from Salvador Dali
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 thoughts 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 quotes 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 wisdom & wit 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 more quotes from William Bennett
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
117 quotes 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 other quotes from Alexander Jackson Davis
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
35 quotes from Ernest Hemingway
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
But the building's identity resided in the ornament.
2 other views from Louis Sullivan
Form follows function.
2 other quotes from Louis Sullivan
The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.
24 other wisdom & wit 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 wisdom & wit from Le Corbusier
A house is a machine for living in.
5 views 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 views from Winston Churchill