Architecture Quotes

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill

Buildings, Shape, Thereafter

Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Jim Rohn

Good, End, Whatever

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build.
Ayn Rand

Order, Build, Clients

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

Integrity, Building, Seldom

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

Age, Time, Great

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Useful, Tools, Bar

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.
John Ruskin

Two, Goodness, Duty

Less is more.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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

Time, Place, Speak

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.
Thomas Fuller

Beauty, God, Light

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one.
Luis Barragan

Gardening, Landscape, Divide

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

Art, Space, Waste

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

Great, End, Through

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

Life, Great, Passion

Those who look for the laws of Nature as a support for their new works collaborate with the creator.
Antonio Gaudi

Nature, Support, Works

A house is a machine for living in.
Le Corbusier

Living, House, Machine

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
Yoshio Taniguchi

Hope, Enjoy, Tea

The higher the building the lower the morals.
Noel Coward

Building, Higher, Morals

Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
Alvar Aalto

Life, Art, Thinking

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light.
Le Corbusier

Game, Learned, Light

I believe that the way people live can be directed a little by architecture.
Tadao Ando

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

Great, Heart, Unique

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

Spiritual, Space, Physical

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Together, Two, Put

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

History, Meaningful, Articulate

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