Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. — Le Corbusier
Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men. — Richard Nickel
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
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
An important work of architecture will create polemics. — Richard Meier
The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. — Salvador Dali
The criteria for architecture after the tsunami is humbleness — Kengo Kuma
Architecture begins where engineering ends. — Walter Gropius
Architecture is a social act and the material theater of human activity. — Spiro Kostof
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. — Rem Koolhaas
I don't know why I've always been so captivated by architecture. — Tim Gunn
Great Architecture Image Quotes
Silence is a source of great strength.
What Is Architecture Quotes
To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. — Le Corbusier
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
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
Make today so awesome, yesterday gets jealous.
Build your architecture from what is beneath your feet. — Hassan Fathy
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
Great minds discuss ideas.Average minds discuss events.Small minds discuss people.
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
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
Beautiful Architecture Quotes
Architecture
is a small piece of this human equation, but for those of us who practice it,
we believe in its potential to make a difference, to enlighten and to enrich the
human experience, to penetrate the barriers of misunderstandin g and provide a
beautiful context for life's drama. — Frank Gehry
One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again. — Renzo Piano
If you wisely invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
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
When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era. — Azzedine Alaia
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton
Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. — Peter Zumthor
...Nature builds up her refined and invisible architecture, with a delicacy eluding our conception, yet with a symmetry and beauty which we are never weary of admiring. — John Herschel
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it. — Frank Lloyd Wright
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul. — Luis Barragan
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
The life of a designer is a life of fight: fight against the ugliness. — Massimo Vignelli
Architecture is the art of reconciliation between ourselves andthe world, and this mediation takes place through the senses — Juhani Pallasmaa
You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
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
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy Banks-Smith
Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being. — Luis Barragan
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
Architecture And Design Quotes
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
Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that provide better for people. — Jan Gehl
The room is there for the human being - not the human being for the room. — El Lissitzky
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
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
To a great mind, nothing is little.
Cities are an immense laboratory of trial and error, failure and success, in city building and city design. — Jane Jacobs
To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it. — Daniel Libeskind
I make no special difference between architecture and design, they are two different stages of invention. — Ettore Sottsass
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
Modern Architecture Quotes
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it’s not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don’t want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots. — I. M. Pei
Modern architecture is not a style, it's an attitude — Marcel Breuer
Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton
Average people have great ideas. Legends have great execution.
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy BanksSmith
Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. — Alvar Aalto
The only thing wrong with architecture is architects. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Don't fear the failure... in great attempts it is glorious even to fail.
I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see. — Roger Waters
There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. — John Baldacci
My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today. — Jean Nouvel
New York is the cubist, the futurist city. It expresses in its architecture, its life, its spirit, the modern thought. — Francis Picabia
Architecture Quotes
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless — Zaha Hadid
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall.
The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall. — Louis Kahn
No one has ever made himself great by showing how small someone else is.
Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in a space ... On the one hand it's about shelter, but it's also about pleasure. — Zaha Hadid
Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois. — Le Corbusier
Architecture is life, or at least it is life itself taking form and therefore it is the truest record of life as it was lived in the world yesterday, as it is lived today or ever will be lived. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body. — Christian Dior
There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence. — Eero Saarinen
Architectural Design Quotes
To create, one must first question everything. — Eileen Gray
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
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
My favorite project is always the next one. — Michael Graves
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
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. — Margot Fonteyn
Yes, ruling by fooling, is a great British art with great Irish fools to practice on. — James Connolly
Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator. — Amedeo Modigliani
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. — Malcolm Muggeridge
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain. — Lord Byron
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art. — Benjamin Disraeli
Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? — Ludwig van Beethoven
Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail. — Elbert Hubbard
Every time I imagine a garden in an architectural setting, it turns into a magical place. I think of gardens I have seen, that I believe I have seen, that I long to see, surrounded by simple walls, columns, arcades or the facades of buildings - sheltered places of great intimacy where I want to stay for a long time. — Peter Zumthor
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
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. — Peter Eisenman
The decorator of Las Colimas must have been a great admirer of both early Aztec and late Taco Bell architectural styles. — Ilona Andrews
To practice space is thus to repeat the joyful and silent experience of childhood; it is, in a place, to be other and to move toward the other...Kandinsky dreamed of: 'a great city built according to all the rules of architecture and then suddenly shaken by a force that defies all calculation. — Michel De Certeau
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity. — Christopher Wren
The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul. — Thomas Moore
It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have... insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. — John Ruskin
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. — Frank Lloyd Wright
All architecture is great architecture after sunset. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. — Stephen Gardiner
Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power. — Claudio Silvestrin
Charleston has something for everyone, rain or shine. Its architecture is unparalleled. Carriage rides are great for seeing the city and hearing the history behind certain houses and the area. — Thomas Gibson
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book. — Victor Hugo
Hong Kong is a nice playground for my street pieces as the architecture is very different from my home city. It's also a great opportunity to take place in a dynamic city of the global art scene. — Invader
Architecture isman'sgreat sense of himself embodied in a world of his own making. It may rise as high in quality only as its source because great art isgreat life. — Frank Lloyd Wright
A building that has great environmental responsibility is a political animal in a way because it becomes promotional of a cause. I think that kind of advocacy through architecture is really good. — Antoine Predock
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque dream which quite naturally touches on the borders of the irrational ... architecture is always dream and function, expression of a utopia and instrument of a convenience. — Roland Barthes
It takes a great client to create great architecture. — Curtis W. Fentress
After World War II great strides were made in modern Japanese architecture, not only in advanced technology, allowing earthquake resistant tall buildings, but expressing and infusing characteristics of traditional Japanese architecture in modern buildings. — Harry Seidler
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter. — Julia Child
The team architecture means setting up an organization that helps people produce that great work in teams. — Jay Chiat
In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture. — Frank Gehry
The great monuments are raised up like dams, pitting the logic of majesty and authority against all the shady elements: it is in the form of cathedrals and palaces that Church and State speak and impose silence on the multitudes. — Georges Bataille
Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What is wanted in architecture, as in so many things, is a man. ... One suggestion might be made-no profession in England has done its duty until it has furnished a victim. ... Even our boasted navy never achieved a great victory until we shot an admiral. Suppose an architect were hanged? Terror has its inspiration, as well as competition. — Benjamin Disraeli
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. — Frank Lloyd Wright
The thing about Chicago is that it really isn't like any other place. The architecture and the layout of the city are the best. I'm from the Midwest, and consider myself a Midwesterner. I feel most at home there. I love California. I have great friends in California. I just have always considered Illinois to be home. — Vince Vaughn
The Italians are the most civilized people. And they're very warm. Basically, they're Jews with great architecture. — Fran Lebowitz
The secret of great cathedrals is that their proportions conform to cosmic laws, 'shaping' people who spend time in them. — Theodor Schwenk
The building is absolutely stunning. It is a magnificent and important piece of architecture that contributes greatly to the cultural landscape of Washington. It is one the best designed buildings in D.C. in the last decade. — Sayings
Architecture worth great attention. As we double our numbers every 20 years we must double our houses. Besides we build of such perishable materials that one half of our houses must be rebuilt in every space of 20 years. So that in that term, houses are to be built for three fourths of our inhabitants. It is then among the most important arts: and it is desireable to introduce taste into an art which shews so much. — Thomas Jefferson
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth. Architecture aims at Eternity. — Sir Christopher Wren
Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. — Kenzo Tange
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics. — Jay Chiat
I think the biggest problem with 'industrial' architecture is that it's lost its sense of humanity. Minimalist stuff drains all the humanity out of it. That idea works great for the money thing, but it doesn't work great for the feeling thing. — Frank Gehry
Vitruvius, the great writer, architect and engineer, identified in his famous treatise on Architecture that the three values essential to any work of Architecture were: firmitas, utilitas, and venustas; or firmness, utility, and delight. Firmness meaning well built, solid and resistant; utility meaning useful and functional, and delight meaning beautiful. — Santiago Calatrava
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