Famous Quotes About - architecture

  • A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. ... Ayn Rand {view}
  • A city building, you experience when you walk; a suburban building, you experience when you drive. ... Helmut Jahn {view}
  • 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. ... Louis Kahn {view}
  • A house is a machine for living in. ... Le Corbusier {view}
  • An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. ... Frank Lloyd Wright {view}
  • Architects in the past have tended to concentrate their attention on the building as a static object. I believe dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental condition. ... John Portman {view}
  • Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. ... Adolf Loos {view}
  • Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. ... Julia Morgan {view}
  • Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. ... Yoshio Taniguchi {view}
  • Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. ... Harry Seidler {view}
  • Architecture is the art of how to waste space. ... Philip Johnson {view}
  • Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. ... Le Corbusier {view}
  • Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. ... Louis Kahn {view}
  • Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness. ... Frank Gehry {view}
  • Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. ... Ludwig Mies van der Rohe {view}
  • Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. ... Arne Jacobsen {view}
  • As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. ... Harry von Zell {view}
  • At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. ... Martin Puryear {view}
  • Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together. ... Alvar Aalto {view}
  • Buildings should serve people, not the other way around. ... John Portman {view}
  • But the building's identity resided in the ornament. ... Louis Sullivan {view}
  • Cities are the greatest creations of humanity. ... Daniel Libeskind {view}
  • Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic. ... Antonio Gaudi {view}
  • Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy. ... Jimmy Breslin {view}
  • Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. ... John Osborne {view}
  • Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great. ... Enid Nemy {view}
  • Every building is a prototype. No two are alike. ... Helmut Jahn {view}
  • Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. ... Frank Lloyd Wright {view}
  • For many years, I have lived uncomfortably with the belief that most planning and architectural design suffers for lack of real and basic purpose. The ultimate purpose, it seems to me, must be the improvement of mankind. ... James Rouse {view}
  • Form follows function. ... Louis Sullivan {view}
  • Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. ... Richard Rogers {view}
  • Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart. ... Arthur Erickson {view}
  • I am but an architectural composer. ... Alexander Jackson Davis {view}
  • I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture. ... Tadao Ando {view}
  • I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. ... Ayn Rand {view}
  • I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. ... Luis Barragan {view}
  • I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? ... Philip Johnson {view}
  • I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. ... Alexander Jackson Davis {view}
  • I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people. ... Donna Karan {view}
  • I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me. ... Maya Lin {view}
  • If I have a style, I am not aware of it. ... Michael Graves {view}
  • If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness. ... Tadao Ando {view}
  • In any architecture, there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function. ... Michael Graves {view}
  • In Los Angeles, by the time you're 35, you're older than most of the buildings. ... Delia Ephron {view}
  • It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time. ... David Allan Coe {view}
  • Less is more. ... Ludwig Mies van der Rohe {view}
  • Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. ... Daniel Burnham {view}
  • My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness. ... Thom Mayne {view}
  • My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. ... Julia Morgan {view}
  • My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people. ... Richard Rogers {view}
  • No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. ... Michael Ende {view}
  • Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. ... Rem Koolhaas {view}
  • Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings. ... Marcus V. Pollio {view}
  • Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns. ... Arne Jacobsen {view}
  • Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time. ... Richard Meier {view}
  • Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us. ... Arthur Erickson {view}
  • The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history. ... Russell Lynes {view}
  • 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. ... Robert A. M. Stern {view}
  • The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines. ... Saul Steinberg {view}