~ Architecture and Architects Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.

Harry von Zell

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The materials of city planning are sky space trees steel and cement in that order and in that hierarchy.

Le Corbusier

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The interior of the house personifies the private world; the exterior of it is part of the outside world.

Stephen Gardiner

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Color in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.

Antonio Gaudi

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup but the tea.

Yoshio Taniguchi

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.

Adolf Loos

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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