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I hate vacations. If you can build buildings, why sit on the beach? Philip
Johnson

Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility.
I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasions to change. Frank Lloyd
Wright

God is in the details. Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the art of how to waste space. Philip Johnson

Form ever follows function. Louis Sullivan

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more

than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future. Kenzo Tange

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Mies van der Rohe

Our time is so specialized that we have people who know more and more or less and
less. Alvar Aalto

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a

beautiful catastrophe. Le Corbusier

Recognizing the need is the primary condition for design. Charles Eames

Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius

No architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. John Ruskin

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in

the light. Le Corbusier

An idea is salvation by imagination. Frank Lloyd Wright

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and

objects. Le Corbusier

But the buildings identity resided in the ornament. Louis Sullivan

Less is more. Mies van der Rohe

It was the spirit animating the mass and flowing from it, and it expressed the
individuality of the building. Louis Sullivan

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Rem Koolhaus

A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to
plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright

Youve got to bumble forward into the unknown. Frank Gehry

I dont want to be interesting. I want to be good. Mies van der Rohe

Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we
split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building
art. Alvar Aalto

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.
Frank Gehry

Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a

particular purpose. Charles Eames

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
Edwin Lutyens

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

much the teacup, but the tea. Yoshio Taniguchi

Any work of architecture which does not express serenity is a mistake. Luis
Barragn

When we build, let us think that we build for ever. John Ruskin

When Im working on a problem, I never think about beauty. But when Ive finished,
if the solution is not beautiful I know its wrong. Buckminster Fuller

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

Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times. Richard Rogers

Architecture is not based on concrete and steel and the elements of the soil. Its
based on wonder. Daniel Libeskind

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it.

Daniel Libeskind

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

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

In reality some images or drawings have a greater impact than many buildings that
are built. Emilio Ambasz

Form ever follows function. Louis Henry Sullivan

A museum is a place where one should lose ones head. Renzo Piano

Very often the opinion of the clients must be disregarded in their own interest.
John M. Johansen

I would like my architecture to inspire people to use their own resources, to move
into the future. Tadao Ando

It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something

bad. Charles Eames

Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight
against gravity. Renzo Piano
To create, one must first question everything. Eileen Gray

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in

the light. Le Corbusier

There is a danger when every building has to look spectacular, to look like it is
changing the world. I dont care how a building looks if it means something, not to
architects, but to the people who use it. David Chipperfield

Each new situation requires a new architecture. Jean Nouvel

The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us. Peter
Eisenman

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. Arne Jacobsen

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration. Ernest Hemingway

The job of buildings is to improve human relations: architecture must ease them,
not make them worse. Ralph Erskine

Architecture is really about well-being. I think that people want to feel good in
a space On the one hand its about shelter, but its also about pleasure. Zaha
Hadid

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a

beautiful catastrophe. Le Corbusier

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci

Architecture begins where engineering ends. Walter Gropius

There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one? Zaha Hadid

I dont divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. Luis
Barragn

I dont know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. Frank
Gehry

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines
whether a man is really an architect. Eero Saarinen

I am trying to counter the fixity of architectures, their stolidity, with elements

that give an ineffable immaterial quality. Toyo Ito

We do not create the work. I believe we, in fact, are discoverers. Glenn
Murcutt

Architecture is not about space but about time. Vito Acconci

One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life
starting all over again. Renzo Piano

People who build their own home tend to be very courageous. These people are
curious about life. Theyre thinking about what it means to live in a house, rather
than just buying a commodity and making it work. Tom Kundig

When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture.

Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like to believe that architecture
connects the present with the past and the tangible with the intangible. Richard
Meier

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

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul
of our own civilization. Frank Lloyd Wright

I love paper. A nice thick pile of it and a pencil, and Im content. Cecil
Balmond

I believe in the near future we will 3D print our buildings and houses. Neri
Oxman

Inconsistency itself breeds vitality. Kenzo Tange

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Mies van der Rohe

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make

those sentiments more precise. Adolf Loos

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

Whenever I draw a circle, I immediately want to step out of it. Buckminster

Fuller

I always try to think in curves. Greg Lynn

Designs of purely arbitrary nature cannot be expected to last long. Kenzo Tange

Question everything generally thought to be obvious. Dieter Rams

Cities have the capability of providing something for everybody, only because, and
only when, they are created by everybody. Jane Jacobs

My work is not about form follows function, but form follows beauty or, even
better, form follows feminine. Oscar Niemeyer

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant

but minimalism. Kevin McCloud

Buildings should be good neighbours. Paul Thiry