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Architecture and Architects QuotesFamous Architecture and Architects quotes by popular authors such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, Arthur Erickson, Adolf Loos, Arne Jacobsen and others.
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[highlight-text]An arch never sleeps.
Hindu Proverb
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[highlight-text]Form follows function.
Louis H. Sullivan
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[highlight-text]The flowering of geometry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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[highlight-text]Architecture is frozen music.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]A house is a machine for living.
Buckminster Fuller
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[highlight-text]Good architecture lets nature in.
Mario Pei
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[highlight-text]The primary factor is proportions.
Arne Jacobsen
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[highlight-text]A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier
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[highlight-text]I am but an architectural composer.
Alexander Jackson Davis
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[highlight-text]Buildings should be good neighbours.
Paul Thiry
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[highlight-text]Perspective is worth 80 I.Q. points.
Alan Kay
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[highlight-text]Architecture is inhabited sculpture.
Constantin Brancusi
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[highlight-text]What people want above all is order.
Stephen Gardiner
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[highlight-text]I call architecture 'petrified music'.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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[highlight-text]If I have a style I am not aware of it.
Michael Graves
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[highlight-text]Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson
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[highlight-text]Cities are the greatest creations of humanity.
Daniel Libeskind
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[highlight-text]Architecture is the reaching out for the truth.
Louis Kahn
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[highlight-text]All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
Philip Johnson
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[highlight-text]The home should be the treasure chest of living.
Le Corbusier
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[highlight-text]We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
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[highlight-text]If a building becomes architecture then it is art.
Arne Jacobsen
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[highlight-text]Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
Maya Lin
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[highlight-text]A building is a string of events belonging together.
Chris Fawcett
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[highlight-text]Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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[highlight-text]Buildings should serve people not the other way around.
John Portman
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[highlight-text]I saw the bathroom fixtures as a kind of American Trinity.
Claes Oldenberg
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[highlight-text]No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
John Ruskin
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[highlight-text]Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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[highlight-text]Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Mies van der Rohe
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[highlight-text]Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
Richard Rogers
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[highlight-text]Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.
Etienne Gaboury
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[highlight-text]Light God's eldest daughter is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller
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[highlight-text]Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.
Mies van der Rohe
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[highlight-text]Old houses mended Cost little less than new before they're ended.
Anonymous
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[highlight-text]Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
Rem Koolhaas
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[highlight-text]I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
Helmut Jahn
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[highlight-text]The house does not frame the view: it projects the beholder into it.
Harwell Hamilton Harris
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[highlight-text]Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.
Julia Morgan
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[highlight-text]Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.
Jimmy Breslin
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[highlight-text]Society needs a good image of itself. That is the job of the architect.
Walter Gropius
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[highlight-text]I don't divide architecture landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan
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[highlight-text]Architecture should speak of its time and place but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry
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[highlight-text]I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Tadao Ando
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[highlight-text]Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.
Leonard Baskin
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[highlight-text]Architecture tends to consume everything else it has become one's entire life.
Arne Jacobsen
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[highlight-text]Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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[highlight-text]To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.
Daniel Libeskind
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[highlight-text]Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
Arthur Erickson
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[highlight-text]Develop an infallible technique and then place yourself at the mercy of inspiration.
Ralph Rapson
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[highlight-text]I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya Lin
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[highlight-text]Architecture is the learned game correct and magnificent of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier
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[highlight-text]If you give people nothingness they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
Tadao Ando
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[highlight-text]A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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[highlight-text]A city building you experience when you walk; a suburban building you experience when you drive.
Helmut Jahn
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[highlight-text]In any architecture there is an equity between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.
Michael Graves
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[highlight-text]Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.
Vincent Scully
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[highlight-text]An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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[highlight-text]To be an architect is to possess an individual voice speaking a generally understood language of form.
Robert A. M. Stern
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[highlight-text]The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
Adolf Loos
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[highlight-text]As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
Harry von Zell
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[highlight-text]The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.
Le Corbusier
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[highlight-text]The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
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[highlight-text]The reality of the building does not consist in the roof and walls but in the space within to be lived in.
Lao-Tzu
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[highlight-text]Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.
Antonio Gaudi
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[highlight-text]You can't really say what is beautiful about a place but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Tadao Ando
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[highlight-text]Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi
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[highlight-text]Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
Adolf Loos
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[highlight-text]Genius is personal decided by fate but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.
Le Corbusier
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[highlight-text]Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique poetic products of the heart.
Arthur Erickson
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The details are the very source of expression in architecture. But we are caught in a vice between art and the bottom line.
Arthur Erickson
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[highlight-text]Stonehenge was built possibly by the Minoans. It presents one of man's first attempts to order his view of the outside world.
Stephen Gardiner
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[highlight-text]Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.
Harry Seidler
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[highlight-text]Early in life I had to choose between arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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[highlight-text]The house has to please everyone contrary to the work of art which does not. The work is a private matter for the artist. The house is not.
Adolf Loos
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[highlight-text]Good architecture is like a piece of beautifully composed music crystallized in space that elevates our spirits beyond the limitation of time.
Tao Ho
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[highlight-text]No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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.
Charles Prince of Wales
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[highlight-text]Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room a room in a house a house in an environment an environment in a city plan.
Eero Saarinen
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[highlight-text]I think there is a new awareness in this 21st century that design is as important to where and how we live as it is for museums concert halls and civic buildings.
Daniel Libeskind
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[highlight-text]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.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]In speculative buildings which is most of our business there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence the top and the elevator cab.
Chao-Ming Wu
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[highlight-text]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?
Walter Gropius
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Architecture (is) a theatre stage setting where the leading actors are the people and to dramatically direct the dialogue between these people and space is the technique of designing.
Kisho Kurokawa
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Why can't we have those curves and arches that express feeling in design? What is wrong with them? Why has everything got to be vertical straight unbending only at right angles - and functional?
Charles Prince of Wales
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[highlight-text]Life is rich always changing always challenging and we architects have the task of transmitting into wood concrete glass and steel of transforming human aspirations into habitable and meaningful space.
Arthur Erickson
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional for truth even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
Adolf Loos
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[highlight-text]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
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[highlight-text]The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts.
John F. Kennedy
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[highlight-text]When you look on one of your contemporary 'good copies' of historical remains ask yourself the question: Not what style but in what civilization is this building? And the absurdity vulgarity anachronism and solecism of the modern structure will be revealed to you in a most startling fashion.
Louis H. Sullivan