~ Architecture and Architects Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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

[MysteRy]

[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