Architecture begins where engineering ends. — Walter Gropius
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair. — Michael Graves
All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space. — Philip Johnson
Design... is the integration of technological, social, and economical requirements, biological necessities, and the psychological effects of materials, shape, color, volume and space. — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan
Each new situation requires a new architecture. — Jean Nouvel
As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown. — Norman Foster
Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. — Julia Morgan
Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. — Le Corbusier
Architecture is not just for the moment, it is not just for the next fashion magazine. — Daniel Libeskind
Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building...A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building. — Bernard Tschumi
Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. — Adolf Loos
Short Architectural Design Quotes
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof
Architecture depends on Order, Arrangement, Eurythmy, Symmetry , Propriety , and Economy. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
I think of architecture as a piece of clothing to wrap around human beings — Toyo Ito
Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit. — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. — Louis Kahn
Design is a process - an intimate collaboration between engineers, designers, and clients. — Henry Dreyfuss
A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense. — Bruno Munari
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid
Architecture is measured against the past, you build in the present, and try to imagine the future. — Richard Rogers
Architectural Design Image Quotes
To create, one must first question everything. — Eileen Gray
My favorite project is always the next one. — Michael Graves
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Architectural Design Inspirational Quotes
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
Architecture never derived its force from stability of culture, but rather from the expression of those moments when that sense of stability slipped. — Mark Wigley
In the face of the economic plight, it is our task to become pioneers of simplicity, that is, to find a simple form for all of life's necessities, which is at the same time respectable and genuine. — Oskar Schlemmer
Good design is obvious, great design is transparent.
Design is where science and art break even. — Robin Mathews
It's always helpful to look outside of the web for your inspiration, to places where you might not at first expect to find a solution. The world is a collage of inspiration, from newspapers, magazine publishing, and advertising to product design, architecture and the fine arts. — Andy Clark
There are places that are so designed they're unlivable. — Frank Gehry
Style is a way to say who you are without having to speak
Buffalo is one of America's great designed cities. The interweaving of great architecture, landscape architecture and important historic sites makes Buffalo a must see destination for preservationists, designers, history buffs, and anyone wishing to see an inspiring example of American design. — Richard Moe
What Is Design Quotes
The life of a designer is a life of fight. Fight against the ugliness. Just like a doctor fights against disease. For us, the visual disease is what we have around, and what we try to do is cure it somehow with design. — Massimo Vignelli
It is not the end of the physical body that should worry us. Rather, our concern must be to live while we're alive - to release our inner selves from the spiritual death that comes with living behind a facade designed to conform to external definitions of who and what we are. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. — B. F. Skinner
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world. — Alicia Keys
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan.
Democracy needs support and the best support for democracy comes from other democracies. Democratic nations should come together in an association designed to help each other and promote what is a universal value - democracy. — Benazir Bhutto
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing. — Tadao Ando
Creative people have to believe in the value of their work. If you don’t have any belief then you can’t give anything—designing is an act of giving, and a belief in the value of the work fuels the desire to express something. It’s important to know what your values are and to take care of them. — Peter Saville
Just as typography is human speech translated into what can be read, so photography is the translation of reality into a readable image. — Herbert Bayer
What Is Architecture Quotes
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state. — Aldo Rossi
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. — Hassan Fathy
Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because the idea wasn't theirs.
Minimalism is not defined by what is not there but by the rightness of what is
and the richness with which this is experienced. — John Pawson
It is difficult to design a space that will not attract people. What is remarkable is how often this has been accomplished. — William H. Whyte
Architecture is bound to situation. And I feel like the site is a metaphysical link, a poetic link, to what a building can be. — Steven Holl
Talking about music is like dancing about architecture
I really like the city of Vienna. I like its art, its music and its architecture. In short, I like the culture that Vienna represents. What really captures me is the period around 1900 - the time of Freud, Schnitzler and Klimt. This is the period in which the modern view of mind was born. — Eric Kandel
Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
When an architect is asked what his best building is, he usually answers, "The next one." — Emilio Ambasz
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
Building Design Quotes
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
We must stop constantly fighting for human rights and equal justice in an unjust system, and start building a society where equal rights are an integral part of the design. — Jacque Fresco
I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in. — Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Good design is as little design as possible.
A modern building should derive its architectural significance solely from the vigour and consequence of its own organic proportions. It must be true to itself, logically transparent, and virginal of lies or trivialities. — Walter Gropius
In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction. — Peter Zumthor
When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point. — Tinker Hatfield
Design is where science and art break even.
Anyone can build a building that protects people from heat, sun and cold. What I am determined to do is to make a stage where people can be sexier and more brilliant, a place where they can awake smarter. — Philippe Starck
Never start with a chiplet design; go for the biggest chip you can imagine and build it. — Jensen Huang
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs
Simple Architecture Quotes
I don't think that architecture is only about shelter, is only about a very simple enclosure. It should be able to excite you, to calm you, to make you think. — Zaha Hadid
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl
No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. — John Ruskin
Design is an opportunity to continue telling the story, not just to sum everything up.
As a designer, the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost. — Harry von Zell
I consider that sex is part of life as much as architecture, fashion, art or food. Sex is life, simple. And I refuse to consider that sex should be hidden. When you hide sex, problems start because sex becomes dangerous. — Olivier Zahm
Whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion. Selecting this development as my first major construction project has been a simple decision. It will underpin not only my values for environmentally friendly architecture, but also embrace my career in entertainment — Brad Pitt
Design is thinking made visual.
I think architecture becomes interesting when it has a double character, that is, when it is as simple as possible but, at the same time as complex as possible — Tadao Ando
Architecture was my way of expressing my ideals: to be simple, to create a world equal to everyone, to look at people with optimism, that everyone has a gift. I don’t want anything but general happiness. Why is that bad? — Oscar Niemeyer
Architecture And Design Quotes
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. — Frank Gehry
The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made. — Louis Kahn
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth — Frank Lloyd Wright
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia
Architecture is not about designing somehting from a free, fanciful idea. It is about discovering and establishing one's own principle, some kind of regularity - finding an individual formula to apply to one's buildings. — Shigeru Ban
Interior Design Quotes
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. — Philippe Starck
I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life. — Elsie De Wolfe
One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes. — Verner Panton
It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something. — Tadao Ando
I'm an artist, a designer, a craftsman, interior designer, half-architect. There's no one name that fits me very well. — Dale Chihuly
The main purpose of my work is to provoke people into using their imagination and make their surroundings more exciting. — Verner Panton
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders
There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe. — Dorothy Draper
Architecture And Art Quotes
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. — Santiago Calatrava
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet. — Ada Louise Huxtable
Art should be created for life, not for the museum — Jean Nouvel
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. — Curt Sachs
In art or architecture your project is only done when you say it's done. If you want to rip it apart at the eleventh hour and start all over again, you never finish. I was one of those crazy creatures. — Maya Lin
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy Banks-Smith
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali
Of course there is a lot of fluidity now between art, architecture and fashion - a lot more cross-pollination in the disciplines, but this isn't about competition, it's about collaboration and what these practices and processes can contribute to one another. — Zaha Hadid
You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Design And Art Quotes
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist — Francis of Assisi
The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong. — Helio Gracie
The artist constructs a new symbol with his brush. This symbol is not a recognizable form of anything which is already finished, already made, already existing in the world - it is a symbol of a new world, which is being built upon and which exists by way of people. — El Lissitzky
For me fashion is an expression of art that is very closely related both to me and to my body. I see it as an expression of identity combined with desire, moods and a cultural setting. — Iris van Herpen
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke
You can have an art experience in front of a Rembrandt... or in front of a piece of graphic design. — Stefan Sagmeister
I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The designer of today re-establishes the long-lost contact between art and the public, between living people and art as a living thing. — Bruno Munari
Having no purpose is the function of art, so somebody else can look at it and ask a question. Design is different - you're supposed to understand what's going on. You can be delighted by it, intrigued by it, but you're supposed to know it's a hot dog stand. — Paula Scher
Designers can create normalcy out of chaos; they can clearly communicate ideas through the organising and manipulating of words and pictures. — Jeffrey Veen
Urban Design Quotes
London is one of the most civilised places in the world for the procedure of making architecture and urban design. — Renzo Piano
The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of Looking-Good rather than the God of Being-Good. — Richard Saul Wurman
The design of the building addresses the public nature of both the urban context and the internal program. In order to reinforce the building's associative or mimetic qualities, the facades are organized in a classical three-part division of base, middle or body, and attic or head. — Michael Graves
Preventing global warming from becoming a planetary catastrophe may take something even more drastic than renewable energy, superefficient urban design, and global carbon taxes. — Jamais Cascio
When people condemn me for designing iconic buildings in cities and not having an idea what a city is, they haven't done their homework. I started in urban design and city planning. It's just that when I got out of school there wasn't much of a market for that. There still isn't. — Frank Gehry
Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children. — Margaret Mead
I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves. — Moshe Safdie
Urban design as a discipline barely exists in most American and Canadian cities. In Singapore, there are innovative transportation strategies at work. — Moshe Safdie
The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing. — Thomas Huxley
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Good ideas come from everywhere. It's more important to recognize a good idea than to author it. — Jeanne Gang
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. — George Nelson
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. — Prince Charles
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. — Edwin Lutyens
To go back to architecture, whats organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale. — Greg Lynn
An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use. — Bruno Munari
A design isn't finished until someone is using it. — Brenda Laurel
Form ever follows function. — Louis Sullivan
Home is where you hang your hangover. — James Crumley
A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being. — Juhani Pallasmaa
People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are curious about life. They're thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather than just buying a commodity and making it work. — Tom Kundig
Even if it's not a style of architecture or period you like, a decorator has to have a feel for a house's personality and try not to fight against it. I like to get the juice out of a house and not spoil it. — Nancy Lancaster
If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture. — Brian Foote
It is an architectural innovation. — Bernard Arnault
The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong. — Marty Neumeier
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. — Arne Jacobsen
In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a purpose. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
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