Architecture Quotes

"Whatever good things we build end up building us."

"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."

"The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our endeavour to build an earthly paradise for people."

"Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, only today can be given form. Only such architecture is creative."

"The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in."

"The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's also related to geometry and a certain understanding of the architecture in which there is a balance between expression and function."

"Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking."

"My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience."

"The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable."

"Form follows function."

"Architecture is a art when one consciously or unconsciously creates aesthetic emotion in the atmosphere and when this environment produces well being."

"Architecture begins where engineering ends."

"Nothing requires the architect's care more than the due proportions of buildings."

"The building's identity resided in the ornament."

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."

"The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid."

"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins."

"Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, eh, people don't read it. But if you make bad architecture, you impose ugliness on a place for a hundred years."

"Church architecture describes visually the idea of the sacred, which is a fundamental need of man."

"We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it."

"Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it."

"Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."

"Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that."

"Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart."

"There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism, and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart."

"Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul."

"In architecture you should live for 150 years, because you have to learn in the first 75 years."

"Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity."

"Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible."

"I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style."

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city."

"The ultimate pleasure of architecture lies in the most forbidden parts of the architectural act, where limits are perverted and prohibitions are transgressed."

"A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

"Architecture, like dance, is also a language - one that everybody understands."