“The Sun does not realise how wonderful it is until after a room is made.

”
- Louis Kahn
“ The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty,
you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you
invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright

“A design isn't finished until someone is using it.”

- Brenda Laurel
“The life of a designer is one of fight: fight against the ugliness.”
- Massimo Vignelli
“ A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through
measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be
unmeasured.”
- Louis Kahn

“The architect represents neither a Dionysian nor an Apollinian condition: here it is

the mighty act of will, the will which moves mountains, the intoxication of the
strong will, which demands artistic expression. The most powerful men have
always inspired the architects; the architect has always been influenced by
power.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
“Less is a bore.”
- Robert Venturi
“Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather
than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make
complicated things simple.”
- Tim Parsey
“One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting
all over again.”
- Renzo Piano
“Everything is designed. Few things are designed well.”
- Brian Reed
“To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history, but to articulate it.”
- Daniel Libeskind
“Practice safe design: Use a concept.”
- Petrula Vrontikis
“Nothing in this world is more simple and more cheap than making cities that
provide better for people.”
- Jan Gehl
“People ignore design that ignores people.”
- Frank Chimero
“In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your
left leg, it’s modern architecture.”
- Nancy Banks-Smith
“I understand that, today, some developers are asking architects to design eye-
catching, iconic buildings. Fortunately, I've not had that kind of client so far.”
- Fumihiko Maki
“Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.”
-Rern Koolhaas
“Good design is all about making other designers feel like idiots because the idea
wasn't theirs.”
- Frank Chimero
“All fine architectural values are human values, else not valuable.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they
should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau
“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
- Mies van de Rohe
“Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent.”
- Joe Sparano
“Good architecture is like a good therapy session, a good marriage, a good poem
– gently and almost invisibly allowing you to be you, as flawed and as beautiful as
you are.”
- Robert Sullivan
“In pure architecture the smallest detail should have a meaning or serve a
purpose.”
-Augustus W. N. Pugin
“I am simply submerged in work from five in the morning to eleven at night;
almost need a few days off to escape a breakdown!”
- Richard Neutra
“The most innovative designers consciously reject the standard option box and
cultivate an appetite for thinking wrong.”
- Marty Neumeier
“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

“For me, design is like choosing what I'm going to wear for the day – only much
more complicated and not really the same at all.”
- Robynne Raye
“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
“A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to
plant vines.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
“Give them the vision of Oz, show them the direction, convince them you can
create the yellow brick road; the rest is civil engineering.”
- Dirk Susharme
“Design is where science and art break even.”
- Mieke Gerritzen

“A profound design process eventually makes the patron, the architect, and every
occasional visitor in the building a slightly better human being.”
- Juhani Pallasmaa

“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”

- Philip Johnson
“I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.”
- Ayn Rand
“A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.”
- Bruno Munari
“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

“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
- Frank Gehry
“Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.”
- Thomas Fuller
“We live in a time of renaissance … cities are coming back to life, after a long
neglect.”
- Daniel Libeskind
“Architecture is a learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in
the light.”
- Le Corbusier
“Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task, therefore, is to
make those sentiments more precise.”
- Adolf Loos
“The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in the human psyche.”
- César Pelli
“I'm convinced that without bad design, the world would be a far less stimulating
place; we would have nothing to marvel over and nothing to be nostalgic about.”
- Carrie Phillips
“Architecture is not based on concrete and steel, and the elements of the soil. It's
based on wonder.”
- Daniel Libeskind
“An object should be judged by whether it has a form consistent with its use.”
- Bruno Munari
“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
“Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.”
- John M. Johnson
“Designers are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
- Fabien Barral
“The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant,
but minimalism.”
- Kevin McCloud

“We shape our buildings: therefore they shape us.”

- Winston Churchill
“Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight
against gravity.”
- Renzo Piano
“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when I'm
finished, if the solution is not beautiful I know it's wrong.”
- Buckminster Fuller
“I call architecture frozen music.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Any work of architecture that does not express serenity is a mistake.”

- Luis Barragán
“All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a
nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.”
- Ambrose Bierce
“A camel is a horse designed by committee.”
- Sir Alec Issigonis
“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape
to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance
attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to
produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.”
- Paola Antonelli
“Home is where you hang your architect.”
- Chare Booth Luce

“Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so

much the teacup, but the tea.”
- Yoshio Taniguchi
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
- Ernest Hemingway
“I find modernist design boring, but it's so much faster!”
- Christine Suewon Lee
“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

“When we build, let us think that we build forever.”

- John Ruskin
“As an architect you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a
future which is essentially unknown.”
- Norman Foster

“I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do.”
- Frank Gehry
“There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular; to look like it is
changing the world. I don't care how a building looks if it means something, not to
architects, but to the people who use it.”
- David Chipperfield
“Here, then, is what I wanted to tell you of my architecture. I created it with
courage and idealism, but also with an awareness of the fact that what is
important is life, friends, and attempting to make this unjust world a better place
in which to live”.
- Oscar Niemeyer

“The room is there for the human being – not the human being for the room.”
- El Lissitzky
“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
“The events of human life, whether public or private, are so intimately linked to
architecture that most observers can reconstruct nations or individuals in all the
truth of their habits from the remains of their monuments or from their domestic
relics.”
- Honore de Balzac
“Architecture is inhabited sculpture.”
- Constantin Brancusi

“The architect's role is to make the mythic real.”

- Sotirios Kotoulas
“We used to build civilizations. Now we build shopping malls.”
- Bill Bryson
“Form ever follows function.”
- Louis H. Sullivan
“Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and
men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric
pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic
framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word
order.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright
“Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they
are unique, poetic, products of the heart.”
- Arthur Erickson
“Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be
described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be
experienced as a complete whole.”
- Maya Lin
“The first gesture of an architect is to draw a perimeter; in other words, to
separate the microclimate from the macro space outside. This in itself is a sacred
act. Architecture in itself conveys this idea of limiting space. It’s a limit between
the finite and the infinite. From this point of view, all architecture is sacred.”
- Mario Botta
“Architecture is the plant fertilizer of our lives; it is the way to be a big, great-
tasting tomato.”
- Robert Sullivan
“Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most
surely, on the soul.”
- Ernest Dimnet
“It is therefore indisputable that the limbs of architecture are derived from the
limbs of man.”
- Michelangelo
“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with
bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see
the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about
how it works.”
- Ai Weiwei
“It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; it's the construction of the
foundation that will stand the test of time.”
- David Allan Coe
“The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.”
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to
me.”
- Maya Lin
“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
“Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the
human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture,
or it isn't real.”
- Frank Stella
“God is in the details.”
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
“Among the planets of the arts, architecture is the dark side of the moon.”
- Bruno Zevi
“Form follows function.”
-Louis Sullivan

“Form does not necessarily follow function.”

-Antoni Gaudi
“Form follows function- that has been misunderstood. Form and function should
be one, joined in a spiritual union.”

“Every great architect is –necessarily- a great poet. He must be a great original

interpreter of his time, his day, his age.”
-Frank Lloyd Wright
“Art and Architecture, the new unity.”
-Walter Gropius

“Architecture is the reaching out for the truth”

“A house is a house.”
-Louis Kahn
“A bridge is like a house.”
-Robert Maillart

“Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical
diagram once recorded will not die.”
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.”
-Daniel Burnham
“Beauty grows from necessity not from repetition of formulas.”

“Architectural-form equals social-form.”

-Eliel Saarinen
“Function influence but does not dictate form.” 
-Eero Saarinen
“Truth is indispensible to Architecture & architectural lie concepts.”
-Auguste Perret

“Form follows beauty.”

“Architecture is invention.”
-Oscar Niemeyer
“Structural  correctness,  which  is  identical  with functional, technical & 
economic  is  a  necessary  &  sufficient  condition  of  satisfactory  aesthetic 
result.”
-Pier Luigi Niervi

“Less is more.”

“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”

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

-Ludwig Mies Van de Rohe

“Architecture seizes upon space, encompasses space and is space itself.”

  “Architecture depends on the sensuous seizure by means of touch and sight.”
-Erich Mendelsohn
“Supply and demand regulate architecture form”
-Adolf Loos

“The house is a Machine to live in.” 

“Cube within a cube.”

-Le Corbusier
“A bldg. is the combination of different geometric figures.”
-Benjamin Latrobe
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space”

“All architects want to live beyond their deaths.”

-Philip Johnson

“Architecture begins where engineering ends”

-Walter Gropius

“A Building has straight geometrical lines. Even when these lines are free, it must
always be evident that they have been studied & that they did not spring up
simultaneously.”

“Nature & Architecture are two different things.” 

-Marcel Breuer

“Architecture must meet 3 requirements: strength, beauty, and unity.”

-Vitruvius