Quotes & anectdotes from the wise, the foolish, the courageous & the drunk

architecture

Less is more. 5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening to me they are one. 5 other thoughts from Luis Barragan

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins. 5 quotes from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. 5 wisdom & wit from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. 5 quotes from Luis Barragan

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house. 3 quotes from Thomas Reid

To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. 5 more thoughts from Martha Graham

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture. 11 quotes from Salvador Dali

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. 52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks. 52 sayings from Gilbert K. Chesterton

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization. 26 other quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. 26 more wisdom & wit from Frank Lloyd Wright

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route. 5 views from Charles Eames

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. 26 more sayings from Frank Lloyd Wright

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. 26 more quotes from Frank Lloyd Wright

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. 117 thoughts from Henry David Thoreau

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. 35 other quotes from Ernest Hemingway

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect. 2 thoughts from Alexander Jackson Davis

I am but an architectural composer. 2 other thoughts from Alexander Jackson Davis

All real education is the architecture of the soul. 2 quotes from William Bennett

Fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions. 16 quotes from Coco Chanel

Make big plans aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die. 2 other wisdom & wit from Daniel Burnham

Form follows function. 2 quotes from Louis Sullivan

But the building's identity resided in the ornament. 2 other quotes from Louis Sullivan

The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable. 24 sayings from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Architecture is the learned game, correct and magnificent, of forms assembled in the light. 5 sayings from Le Corbusier

To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and objects. 5 quotes from Le Corbusier

A house is a machine for living in. 5 sayings from Le Corbusier

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. 78 quotes from Voltaire

We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us. 74 more sayings from Winston Churchill

The higher the building the lower the morals. 3 sayings from Noel Coward

The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present. 4 quotes from Adolf Loos

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless. 3 other thoughts from Minoru Yamasaki

Japanese architecture is very much copied in this country and in Europe. 3 views from Minoru Yamasaki

Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. 4 quotes from Adolf Loos

Don't clap too hard - it's a very old building. 2 other quotes from John Osborne

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. 68 quotes from Samuel Butler

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

What people want, above all, is order. 13 other views from Stephen Gardiner

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. 36 wisdom & wit from Lord Byron

Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England. 13 views from Stephen Gardiner

Architecture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves. 2 views from Julia Morgan

Architecture, of all the arts, is the one which acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul. 3 other views from Ernest Dimnet

Georgian architecture respected the scale of both the individual and the community. 13 wisdom & wit from Stephen Gardiner

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building. 45 thoughts from Thomas Fuller

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid. 12 other views from Thomas a Kempis

The interior of the house personifies the private world the exterior of it is part of the outside world. 13 more quotes from Stephen Gardiner

The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail. 13 sayings from Stephen Gardiner

The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

Painting, sculpture and architecture are finished, but the art habit continues. 3 quotes from Robert Smithson

Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today, Japanese flexibility is the greatest. 13 quotes from Stephen Gardiner

My buildings will be my legacy... they will speak for me long after I'm gone. 2 thoughts from Julia Morgan

I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build. 24 other wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand

I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly. 4 other quotes from Arne Jacobsen

If a building becomes architecture, then it is art. 4 more sayings from Arne Jacobsen

Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became. 3 more views from Louis Kahn

Architecture tends to consume everything else, it has become one's entire life. 4 other views from Arne Jacobsen

Architecture is the reaching out for the truth. 3 quotes from Louis Kahn

Architecture is inhabited sculpture. 2 more thoughts from Constantin Brancusi

It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. 45 more views from John Ruskin

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. 45 more thoughts from John Ruskin

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. 24 other wisdom & wit from Ayn Rand