Architecture Quotes

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.

Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.

Architecture is not created, it is discovered – the hand will find solutions before the mind can even comprehend them.

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses

Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be.

I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention.

No matter how hard life is, you are your own architecture. If you give up then there’s no one that can help you, but if you want to keep building your future, then no one can stop you either.

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

The purpose of architecture is to transmute the emptiness into space, that is into something which our minds can grasp as an organized unity.

Architecture has the power to create order out of unholy confusion.

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.

The architect's role is to fight for a better world, where he can produce an architecture that serves everyone and not just a group of privileged people.

Buildings don't exist to be pinned, like brooches, on the front of bigger structures to which they bear only the most distant of relationships.

How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

Good design, like good painting, cooking, architecture or whatever you like, is a manifestation of the capacity of the human spirit to transcend its limitations.

Architecture is not about form

There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last

Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.

Architecture is art, but art vastly contaminated by many other things. Contaminated in the best sense of the word – fed, fertilised by many things.

You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.

You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony

Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku.

I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings

My furniture is an exercise in architecture or architectural mood.

Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.

When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.

Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future.

Architecture is not about space but about time.

The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance lives at once in time and space.

When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one."

Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity.

Architecture is about the understanding of the world and turning it into a more meaningful and humane place.

Great artists need great clients.

What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

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.

The architect must not only understand drawing, but music.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Let's do it right. This is for the ages.

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.

You cannot defend your design without knowing what you're designing for.

Art is more than a series of images that are disembodied. Art is objects that live in real places, economies, spaces, architecture.