I leave you the best architecture quotes from some of the most famous and important architects such as Antoni Gaudi, Richard Meier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright or Le Corbusier.
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45-Architecture is an expression of values.-Norman Foster.
-Those who look at the laws of nature as support for their new works collaborate with the creator.-Antoni Gaudi.
-Architecture begins with putting two bricks together carefully.-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
-Architecture is a visual art and the buildings speak for themselves.-Julia Morgan.
-Architecture begins where engineering ends.-Walter Gropius.
-A world that sees art and engineering as divided, is not seeing the world as a whole.-Edmund Happold.
-Architecture is inhabited sculpture.-Constantin Brancusi.
-Any architectural work that does not express serenity is a mistake.-Luis Barragán.
-Architecture is the scope of truth.-Louis Kahn.
-Architecture points to eternity.-Christopher Wren.
-In any architecture there is an equality between the pragmatic function and the symbolic function.-Michael Graves.
-Architecture awakens feelings in man. Your task is therefore to make those feelings more precise.-Adolf Loos.
-Architecture is the learned, correct and magnificent game of forms assembled in light.-Le Corbusier.
-The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend in it.-David Chipperfield.
-The architecture that we remember is the one that never consoles or comforts us.-Peter Eisenman.
-If a building becomes architecture, it is art.-Arne Jacobsen.
-Architecture is basically interior design, the art of organizing interior space.-Philip Johnson.
-Architecture is to make space reflexively.-Louis Kahn.
-All important architectural work will create controversy.-Richard Meier.
-Architecture belongs to culture, not to civilization.-Alvar Aalto.
-You must accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony.-Renzo Piano.
-The function of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture should facilitate them, not make them worse.-Ralph Erskine.
- Every great architect is necessarily a great poet. He must be an original interpreter of his time, his days, his age.-Frank Lloyd Wright.
-We shape our buildings, then they shape us.-Winston Churchill.
-We have to base the architecture on the environment.-Toyo Ito.
35-Great architects always transcend their function, sometimes in unforeseen ways.-Martin Filler.
-There is a deep ethic in architecture that is different from the other arts.-Moshe Safdie.
-Architecture is not an inspirational business, it is a rational procedure to do beautiful things.-Harry Seidler.
-I call architecture frozen music.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
-The dialogue between client and architect is as intimate as any other conversation you can have, because when you talk about building a house, you talk about dreams.-Robert AM Stern.
-Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.-Frank Gehry.
-My buildings will be my legacy, they will speak for me long after I'm gone.-Julia Morgan.
-The great buildings that move the spirit have always been strange. They are unique, poetic, products of the heart.-Arthur Erickson.
-Architecture is the art of spending space.-Philip Johnson.
-If you have total freedom, you are in trouble. It is much better when you have some obligations, discipline, rules. When you don't have rules, you start to build your own rules.-Renzo Piano.
-All architecture is great after sunset; perhaps architecture is a nocturnal art, like fireworks.-Gilbert K. Chesterton.
-Good buildings come from good people and all problems are solved by good designs.-Stephen Gardiner.
-Architecture, of all the arts, is the one that acts more slowly, but surely the one that most in the soul.-Ernest Dimnet
-I am nothing more than an architectural composer.-Alexander Jackson Davis.
-I don't build to have clients. I have clients to build.-Ayn Rand.
-Anything we build ends up building us.-Jim Rohn.
-Architecture is invention.-Oscar Niemeyer.
-It is not the beauty of a building that should be looked at; It is the construction of the foundations that will stand the test of time.-David Allan Coe.
-We are called to be the architects of the future, not its victims.-R. Buckminster Fuller.
-The mother of art is architecture. Without the architecture of our own being we do not have the soul of our own civilization.-Frank Lloyd Wright.
-Each new situation requires a new architecture.-Jean Nouvel.
-A house is a machine for living.-Le Corbusier.
-Architects in the past have tried to focus their attention on the building as a static object. I think the dynamics are more important: the dynamics of people, their interaction with spaces and environmental conditions.-John Portman.
-I try to give people a different way of seeing their surroundings. That is art for me.-Maya Lin.
-The identity of the building resides in the ornament.-Louis Sullivan.
-Providing meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.-Daniel Libeskind.
-I think that the way people live can be directed a bit by architecture.-Tadao Ando.
-The higher the building, the more deeply it must lay the foundations.-Thomas to Kempis.
-I think the limitations are very important. They are positive because they allow you to work on something.-Charles Gwathmey.
-You can't just put something in a place. You have to absorb what you see around you, what exists on earth and then use that knowledge together with contemporary thought to interpret what you see. -Tadao Ando.
-The forms follow the function.-Louis Sullivan.
-I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move in the future.-Tadao Ando.
-The color in certain places has the great value of making the contours and structural planes seem more energetic.-Antoni Gaudi.
-It is very easy to be different, but very difficult to be the best.-Jonathan Ive.
-Each building is a prototype. No two are alike.-Helmut Jahn.
-We architects can affect the quality of life of people.-Richard Rogers.
-I think the material doesn't need to be strong to build a strong structure. The strength of the structure has nothing to do with the strength of the material.-Shigeru Ban.
-Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.-Richard Meier.
-If you think you can not make the world a better place with your work, at least make sure you do not make it worse.-Herman Hertzberger.
-No architecture is as arrogant as that which is simple.-John Ruskin.
-The principle of Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.-Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
-We did not create the work. We are discoverers.- Glenn Murcutt.
-Architecture is the will of an era translated into space.-Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
-A building has integrity just like a man.-Ayn Rand.
-All architecture is a refuge, all great architecture is the design of the space that contains, exalts, embraces or stimulates the people in that space.-Philip Johnson.
-Architects always talk about space. But creating space is not automatically making architecture. With the same space, you can make a masterpiece or cause a disaster.-Jean Nouvel.
-Beware of overconfidence, especially in terms of structure.-Cass Gilbert.
-We should concentrate our work not only on separate housing problems, but on houses that participate in our daily work and all other functions in the city.-Alvar Aalto.
-Architecture cannot fully represent the chaos and turbulence that are part of the human personality, but you need to put a little of those turbulence to make it real.-Frank Stella.
-Cities are the great creations of humanity.-Daniel Libeskind.
-Architects have made architecture too complex. We need to simplify it and use a language that everyone can understand.-Toyo Ito.
-A product is often more useful if the costs are lowered without damaging the quality.-Charles Eames.
-I look for the surprise in my architecture. A work of art should provoke the emotion of the novel.-Oscar Niemeyer.
-Architecture is basically a container for something. I hope you enjoy not so much the cup of tea, but the tea.-Yoshio Taniguchi.
-Architecture is a constant struggle between man and nature, the struggle to possess it. The first act of architecture is to put a stone on the ground. This act transforms a condition of nature into a condition of culture; It is a sacred act.-Mario Botta.
-A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity, and once more in old age, just as a good building should be seen in the morning light, in the afternoon and in the light of the moon.-- Robertson Davies.
-The future of architecture is culture.-Philip Johnson.
-Architecture consists of public space in the hands of buildings.-Richard Rogers.
-I do not divide architecture, landscape and gardening; for me they are one.-Luis Barragan.
-Inconsistency in itself begets vitality.-Kenzo Tange.
-Architecture is about wellness. I think people want to feel good in space. On the one hand it is about housing, but also about pleasure.-Zaha Hadid.
-When an architect is questioned about his best building, he usually answers «the following».- Emilio Ambasz.
-There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.-Gilbert K. Chesterton.
-Each material has its own shadow. The shadow of the stone is not the same as that of a brittle autumn leaf. The shadow penetrates the material and radiates its message.-Sverre Fern.
-You can put a book face down; you can avoid listening to bad music; But you cannot lose the ugly tower in front of your house.-Renzo Piano.
-Bridges are perhaps the most invisible forms of public architecture.-Bruce Jackson.
-The navigation rules never sailed a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.-Thomas Reid.
-A developed country is not a place where the poor have a car, it is a place where the rich go by public transportation.-Enrique Peñalosa.
-Architecture is art, nothing more.-Philip Johnson.
-I think buildings should imitate ecological ecosystems.-Ken Yeang.
-Art work shows people new directions and thoughts of the future.Adolf Loos.
-My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience.-Luis Barragan.
-If architecture is frozen music, then music must be liquid architecture.-Quincy Jones.
-The infrastructure is much more important than the architecture.-Rem Koolhaas.