68 result(s) for Architecture Quotes.
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design."
"Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake."
"Good design doesn't date. Bad design does."
"Architecture is essentially an art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities."
"If it isn't beautiful, it isn't going to work."
"First, there is the idea, then the concept, then the space. Form follows function."
Can't find the quotes you're looking for?
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own, we have no soul of our own civilization."
"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
"Recognizing the need is the primary condition for the design."
"I don’t divide architecture, landscape, and gardening; to me they are one."
"You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: 'This is beautiful.' That is Architecture."
"In pure architecture, the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose."
"Architecture has its own realm. It has a special physical relationship with life. I do not think of it primarily as either a message or symbol, but as an envelope and background for life which goes on in and around it, a sensitive container for the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, for the concentration of work, for the silence of sleep."
"Form follows profit – is the aesthetic principle of our times."
"Architecture is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice its craft, we believe in the importance of making a place where we can live with grace."
"Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure."
"To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects."
"A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable."
"Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived."
"Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real."
Can't find the quotes you're looking for?
"I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."
"Architecture is the very mirror of life. You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society."
"Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. He will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time."
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it."
"I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me."
"I strive for two things in design: simplicity and clarity. Great design is born of those two things."
"A building is not just a place to be but a way to be."
"There should be no separation between spontaneous work with an emotional tone and work directed by the intellect."
"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."
"We shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us."
"Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration and love."
"Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space."
"In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function."
"The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism."
Can't find the quotes you're looking for?
"I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good."
"Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves."
"There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?"
"I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away."
"Form follows function."
"Architecture is inhabited sculpture."
"Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea."
"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
"Architecture is a way of seeing, thinking and questioning."
"The dialogue between client and architect is about as intimate as any conversation you can have, because when you're talking about building a house, you're talking about dreams."
"Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity."
"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines."
"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness."
"To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it."
"God is in the details."
"Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves."
"You employ stone, wood, and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: This is beautiful. That is architecture."
"Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It’s based on wonder."
"I don’t divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one."
"Good buildings come from good people, and all problems are solved by good design."
"Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light."
"To create, one must first question everything."
"There are no straight lines or sharp corners in nature. Therefore, buildings must have no straight lines or sharp corners."
"Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."
"Architecture is the reaching out for the truth."
"Less is only more where more is no good."
"A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same."
"Architecture is not about space but about time."
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
"An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site."
"Architecture is the thoughtful making of space."
"I don't think you make architecture about anything other than the time you live in."
Can't find the quotes you're looking for?
